Great Migration Artwork

Great Sites about the Great Migration

• Students: Click on these websites to explore the gallery of images taken during the early 1900s of segregation.  Examine how these photos "pushed" African Americans to leave the South and migrate North.

Historic Photos of the Migration: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
AAME: Great Migration Site: http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=8&bhcp=1

• Once you have viewed these historic photos, go through African American artist, Jacob Lawrence's, Great Migration Series.  The series is divided into four parts. What would be a good name for each of the parts of the series?

Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration Painting Series: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/odonnell/w1010/edit/migration/migration.html