Installation view of the exhibition "One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North" | MoMA

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

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. IN2318.17. Photograph by Jonathan Muzikar.

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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
Jacob Lawrence The railroad stations in the South were crowded with people leaving for the North 1940-41
Jacob Lawrence The Negro press was also influential in urging the people to leave the South 1940-41
Jacob Lawrence They arrived in great numbers into Chicago, the gateway of the West 1940-41