Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

Every Saturday in June, participate in an engaging, discussion-based experience about Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series led by a Phillips Educator. A powerful visual epic, The Migration Series (1940-41) documents the historic movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North more than a century ago. The Phillips Collection owns the odd-numbered panels of the 60-panel series.

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IMAGE: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers., 1940-41, Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1942; © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York