Artworks

The Opener from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture

The March from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture

To Preserve Their Freedom from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Confrontation at the Bridge

Harlem Street Scene

The Builders

The 1920's ... The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots from Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

Street Shadows

Sedation

Graduation

The Wedding

This Is a Family Living in Harlem

Virginia Interior

Although the Negro was used to lynching, he found this an opportune time for him to leave where one had occurred

The labor agent who had been sent South by Northern industry was a very familiar person in the Negro counties

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 slightest provocation

Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes

And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement

In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement

The trains were packed continually with migrants

The migrants arrived in great numbers

Living conditions were better in the North

The railroad stations in the South were crowded with people leaving for the North

The World War had caused a great shortage in Northern industry and also citizens of foreign countries were returning home