Jacob Lawrence

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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), African American painter and art professor.

Associated with social realism. Known works include Builders No. 1 and New York in Transit.

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Revolt on the Amistad (1989)
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"In a free government, the security of civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other, in the multiplicity o (1976)
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"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII:59. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. (1958)
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Although the Negro was used to lynching he found this an opportune time for him to leave where one had occurred
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Among one of the last groups to leave the South was the Negro professional who was forced to follow his clientele to make a living
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Among the social conditions that existed which was partly the cause of the migration was the injustice done to the Negroes in the courts
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And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement
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And the migrants kept coming
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Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightes
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Bar and Grill (1941)
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Blind Beggars (1938)
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Café Comedian (1957)
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