The great migration : an American story /
paintings by Jacob Lawrence ; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers.
- New York : [Washington, D.C.] : HarperCollins : Museum of Modern Art ; Phillips Collection, 1993.
- 46 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Booklist Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books VOYA
A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African-Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
Afro-Americans in art--Juvenile literature. Rural-urban migration in art--Juvenile literature. Afro-Americans in art. Rural-urban migration in art. Artists. African Americans in art. Internal migration in art. Artists.