LAWRENCE JACOB And the Migrants kept Coming

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LAWRENCE, JACOB. And the Migrants kept Coming. . . 26 color illustrations from his 60-panel 'Exodus' series, printed here on 7 pages, in Fortune Magazine for November, 1941 * [with] In the Heart of the Black Belt. Three color illustrations on two pages of Fortune Magazine for August, 1948. Both volumes large folio, with original wrappers; light wear. New York, 1941; 1948

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Jacob Lawrence was the first African American painter to be featured in a mainstream white magazine. Fortune's 1941 feature story, not only served to introduce its upscale white subscribers to an African American artist, but also revisited a piece of very important black history.