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Art and the Great MigrationA Webinar for American Transitions from Rural to Urban Life
Tracy TeslowUniversity of Cincinnati
July 7, 2011
The Great Migration1916-1930
A segregated railroad depot waiting room in Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. State Archives of Florida
Black Family Arrives in Chicago from the South, ca. 1919Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Macon, Ga April 2, 1918To the Bethlehem Baptist Association reading in the Chicago Defender of your help securing positions I want to know if it is any way you can oblige me by helping me to get out there as I am anxious to leave here + everything so hard here I hope you will oblige in helping me to leave here ans[wer] at once to 309 Middle St. Mrs. J. H. Adams
“Times is Getting’ Harder” by Lucious Curtis, 1940
Times is gettin' harder,Money's gettin' scarce.Soon as I get my cotton and corn,I'm bound to leave this place.
White folks sittin' in the parlor,Eatin' that cake and food,black person’s way down to the kitchen,Squabblin' over turnip greens.Times is gettin' harder,Money's gettin' scarce.Soon as I get my cotton and corn,I'm bound to leave this place.
Me and my brother was out.Thought we'd have some fun.He stole three chickens.We began to run.Times is gettin' harder,Money's gettin' scarce.Soon as I get my cotton and cornI'm bound to leave this place.
Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Ben Shahn, 1935
Art and the Paradox of African American Identity
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, ca. 1918
“One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body” ~ The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
Photographs of African Americans:Paris Universal Exposition, 1900
Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A., 1900
W.E.B. Du Bois
Displayed at the UniversalExposition, Paris, 1900
Bazoline Estelle Usher
Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A., 1900
W.E.B. Du Bois
Displayed at the UniversalExposition, Paris, 1900
The home of an African American lawyer, Atlanta, GeorgiaPhoto by Thomas E. Askew
David Tobias Howard, an undertaker, his wife and mother, Atlanta, Georgia
The New Negro Movement:Art and the Great Migration
"...Our problem is to conceive, develop, establish an art era. Not
white art painting black...let's bare our arms and plunge them
deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through
hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of
our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then
let's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it. Let's do the impossible. Let's
create something transcendentally material, mystically objective.
Earthy. Spiritually earthy. Dynamic."
~ Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas
An Idyll of the Deep South, Aspects of Negro Life Series, 1934
Aaron Douglas
Song of the Towers, Aspects of Negro Life Series, 1934
Aaron Douglas
Life Up North:Archibald Motley, Jr. & William H. Johnson
Black Belt, 1934
Archibald Motley, Jr.
Nightlife, 1943
Archibald Motley, Jr.
Jitterbug V, 1941-42 Street Life, Harlem, 1941-42
William H. Johnson
Jacob Lawrence
#1 -- During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern Negroes
The Migration Series, 1940-41, by Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, 1940-41, by Jacob Lawrence
#3 -- In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry
The Migration Series, 1940-41, by Jacob Lawrence
#29 -- The labor agent also recruited laborers to break strikes which were occurring in the North.
The Migration Series, 1940-41, by Jacob Lawrence
#49 -- They also found discrimination in the North although it was much different from that which they had known in the South.
The Migration Series, 1940-41, by Jacob Lawrence
#57 -- The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South.
ResourcesBooks, for kids:The Great Migration: An American Story, paintings by Jacob Lawrence, New York: HarperCollins, 1993 (ages 8 & up)
John Duggleby, Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence, Chronicle Books, 1998 (ages 6-12)
The Harlem Renaissance, compiled by Karen Kuehner, Nextext, 2001 (grades 9-12)
Websites:Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, The Phillips Collection
~ http://www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/index.cfmThe Jacob and Gwen Knight Lawrence Virtual Resource Center
~ http://www.jacobandgwenlawrence.org/Art and Life of William H. Johnson: A Guide for Teachers, Smithsonian Institution
~ http://americanart.si.edu/education/guides/whj/index.cfmHistory Matters (music, letters from the Great Migration)
~ http://historymatters.gmu.eduGreat Migration: Documents for the Investigation
~ http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/historyGIS/greatmigration/gmdocuments.html
Video:“Up South: African American Migration in the Era of the Great War,” American Social History Productions, Inc., CUNY, 30 minutes
~ http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/up-south/“Jacob Lawrence: an intimate portrait,” Public Media Home Vision, 1993
~ online at: http://www.artbabble.org/video/lacma/jacob-lawrence-intimate-portrait