About this book
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.
- African Americans
- African Americans in art
- American Painting
- History
- Juvenile literature
- Painting, American
- Rural-urban migration in art
- Drawing & drawings
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