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The Great Migration : an American story Cover Image Book

The Great Migration : an American story / paintings by Jacob Lawrence ; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers.

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060230371
  • ISBN: 006023038X
  • ISBN: 0060234539
  • ISBN: 0064434281
  • ISBN: 0870701665
  • ISBN: 0943044200
  • ISBN: 1338619799
  • ISBN: 9780060230371
  • ISBN: 9780060230388
  • ISBN: 9780060234539
  • ISBN: 9780064434287
  • ISBN: 9780870701665
  • ISBN: 9780943044200
  • ISBN: 9781338619799
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Museum of Modern Art ; [1993]

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Target Audience Note:
830L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 0.5 9593.

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