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The Migration Review: The African-American Exodus In Painting and Dance by Jonathan Mandell

Millions of African-Americans moved from the rural South to industrial cities in the North in the decades after World War I, one of the largest migrations in the history of humanity, ignored by most newspapers (except the black press), but famously captured by a 23-year-old painter named Jacob Lawrence. In 1941, he created The Migration […]

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PM on November 14, 2017

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