The Migration Series- By Jacob Lawrence
The Great Migration After WWI, millions of African-Americans left The Southern cotton fields to build a new life in the factories and cities of the North.
Panel 1: During WWI there was a great migration north of southern African-Americans.
Panel 32: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there.
Panel 45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North.
Panel 47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce Panel 47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses.
Panel 49: They found discrimination in the North Panel 49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind.
Panel 55: The migrants, having suddenly moved into a crowded and unhealthy environment, so contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose.