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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North
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Installation view of the exhibition "One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North"
April 3, 2015–September 7, 2015. IN2318.14. Photograph by Jonathan Muzikar.
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Jacob Lawrence
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
1940-41
Jacob Lawrence
Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes
1940-41
Jacob Lawrence
And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement
1940-41
Jacob Lawrence
The labor agent who had been sent South by Northern industry was a very familiar person in the Negro counties
1940-41
Jacob Lawrence
In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not
1940-41