Cultural Changes
In her Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Warmth of Other Suns, journalist Isabel Wilkerson described the migration as "six million black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an uncertain existence in the North and Midwest." This significant event and the subsequent struggle of African-American migrants to adapt to Northern cities was the subject of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, created when he was a young man in New York.
Exhibited in 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art, Lawrence's Series featured the young artist and he was quickly perceived as one of the most important African-American artists of the time.
Read more about this topic: Great Migration (African American)
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