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The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries.

Jacob Lawrence 1917-2000

  • Nationality American
  • Creating Date between 1940 and 1941
  • Medium Casein tempera on hardboard
  • Dimensions 12 x 18 in.; 30.48 x 45.72 cm.
  • Credit Line Acquired 1942
The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries.
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More Works by Jacob Lawrence In the Collection

The Migration Series, Panel no. 5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread.
between 1940 and 1941
The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.
between 1940 and 1941

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