Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series at SAM is Essential American History, Masterfully Rendered

by Emily PothastJacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel 58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities, 1940-1941.© The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource NY, © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation,Seattle / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Poverty. Police violence. Overcrowded trains and tenements. Segregation. Race riots. Death. For all the hardships and trauma depicted in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series (on view