(1917-2000)
Painter/best known works, The Migration Series which depicts the migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north.
“...We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.”
Take a Virtual Tour of Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle on display at the Peabody Essex Museum