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The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 24. Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 26. And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 28. The labor agent who had been sent South by Northern industry was a very familiar person in the Negro counties.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 30. In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 32. The railroad stations in the South were crowded with people leaving for the North.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 34. The Negro press was also influential in urging the people to leave the South.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 36. They arrived in great numbers into Chicago, the gateway of the West.
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry.
Jacob Lawrence
Migration panel 38. They also worked in large numbers on the railroad.
Jacob Lawrence
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