Name: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and the Legacy of Jim Crow: The Long History of the Artist’s Concerns
Start: 2015-04-15T18:30
Location: Theater 1

Lecture/panel

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Held on Wed, Apr 15, 2015, 6:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Jacob Lawrence. The Migration Series. 1940–41. Panel 22 of 60: "Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation." Casein tempera on hardboard, c. 12 x 18" (30.5 cm x 45.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy. © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art, New York

In conjunction with the exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North, a trio of leading social-justice activists discuss the legacy of Jim Crow. The event features Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Sherrilyn Ifill, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Cornell Brooks, President and CEO, NAACP. Sponsored by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art

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This event accompanies One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North.

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