Title: The Migration Series, Panel No. 8
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Date: 1940-1941
Medium: Casein tempera on hardboard
Predominately dressed in hues of blue, emotions of sadness can be felt through the dark sky, shadows across the waters, and lifeless trees perched up from the bodies of water. Lawrence depicts this scene to show additional reasoning for such a mass movement to the North. The floods that took place, including the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, left the agricultural lands and cash crops of the South devastated. The South became inhospitable to earn a living, leaving an increased motivation for African Americans to migrate North.
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