The great migration : an American story
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The great migration : an American story
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paintings by Jacob Lawrence ; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers.
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Publication Information:
New York : Museum of Modern Art ; [Washington, D.C.] : Phillips Collection ; New York : HarperCollins, ©1993 (Princeton Polychrome Press)
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
ISBN:
9780060230371
9780060230388
9780060234539
9780870701665
9780943044200
9780064434287
9780785776284
General Note:
"This book has been made possible by Osa Brown, Director of Publications, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and by Elizabeth Hutton Turner; Associate Curator; The Phillips Collection; Jessica Altholz and David Gale, editors; Tom Starace, art director; Marc Sapir; John Vitale, and Lucille Schneider; production; Darla Decker and Elisabeth Foxley Leach, project assistants. Project consultants: George Nicholson, Gwendolyn Knight, Harriet Bee, Michael Hentges, Tim McDonough, Helen Santini, and John B. Murphy. Introduction based on an interview conducted by curator Elizabeth Hutton Turner; October 3, 1992. The color separations and interior printing were done by Princeton Polychrome Press. The jacket was printed by New England Book Components. The book was bound by Worzalla. Book design by Tom Starace"--Colophon.
Abstract:
A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
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830 L Lexile
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Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5.1 0.5 Quiz 9593 English non-fiction.
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