National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
In this lesson plan, students will consider Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
Columbia University
Columbia University: "The Migration Series" by Jacob Lawrence
This is a four slide-show examination of the pictorial series that the Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence created in paint to tell the story of the "The Great Migration" of African-Americans from the Southern United States to the...
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Whitney Museum: Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories
A look at Jacob Lawrence and his art, and instructions on how to make your own tempera paints and "paint your own story," using Lawrence's work as inspiration.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Painting the Migration
Paintings by Jacob Lawrence titled, "The Migration of the Negro", a series of sixty paintings, illustrates the migration of African Americans to the North in the twentieth century. A link to this artwork can be found within this summary.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Jacob Lawrence
Read this student article that portrays Jacob Lawrence as "the first African American artist to cross over the 'color line' and exhibit his work in galleries and museums previously only showing the works of white artists."
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Lawrence: Migration Series, No. 57 [Pdf]
Information about and analysis of a characteristic work from Lawrence's "Migration Series."