Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selections From the Phillips Collection July 17, 2008

Jacob Lawrence's 'Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection' includes 17 panels from Lawrence's renowned series depicting the migration of African Americans from the rural south to the urban North during and after World War I. An American epic told through vivid patterns and colors, the complete narration of the 60 panels of 'Migration Series,' portrays the story of people seeking a better life, and the captions for each image combine history, sociology and poetry in a visual narrative.