The Art of the Great Migration

Edwards, Melvin, Early Time, Welded steel, 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/26024/early-time?ctx=ccf9f05da5885ca7318d48480bf92bfb3f572e7d&idx=251 

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Edwards, Melvin, Good Word from Cayenne, Welded steel, 1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/26023/good-word-from-cayenne?ctx=ccf9f05da5885ca7318d48480bf92bfb3f572e7d&idx=250

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Edwards, Melvin, Sekuru Knows, Welded steel, 1988, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81199

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Lawrence, Jacob, Migration Series, Tempera paint on hardboard panels, gesso, 1940-1941, Museum

of Modern Art, New York, https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2015/onewayticket/ 

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Walker, Kara, Slaughter of the Innocents (They Might be Guilty of Something), Cut paper, acrylic,

graphite on canvas, 2016, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/137056/slaughter-of-the-innocents-they-might-be-guilty-of-somethin?ctx=31ae6d52f6c823e14c7df160e678110af4b06475&idx=521#  

 

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. London,

NY: Penguin Random House, 2010.