Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
- ISBN-10
- 0875772374
- ISBN-13
- 9780875772370
- Series
- Jacob Lawrence
- Category
- History in art
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Authors
- Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly
Description
This volume reproduces Lawrences epic, sixty-panel series of paintings depicting the postWorld War I migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North. A major contribution to African-American history, the book features essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lonnie G. Bunch III, Spencer R. Crew, Deborah Willis, Diane Tepfer, and other distinguished scholars and historians.
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