1. The Migration Series- By Jacob Lawrence

2. 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.

3. Panel 1: During WWI there was a great migration north of southern African-Americans.

4. Panel 32: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there.

5. Panel 45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North.

6. 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.

7. Panel 49: They found discrimination in the North
Panel 49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind.

8. Panel 55: The migrants, having suddenly moved into a crowded and unhealthy environment, so contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose.