A yellow railing (*) divides diners in the 49th entry in this series.
Leah Dickerman curated a recent exhibit of these works, commissioning poems by Natasha Trethewey and others for the catalogue. Edith Halpert ignored the instructions of the artist of these works and sold half of them to the Phillips Collection. One entry in this series consists largely of a bell mounted next to a headlamp and a smokestack.  In his 70s, the artist of these works went back and edited all but five of the the captions of these paintings. A yellow railing (*) divides diners in the 49th entry in this series. The artist's future wife Gwendolyn Knight helped transfer the drawings from this series to panels. A figure in orange bows before the lone branch of a tree with a noose attached to it in the 15th entry in this series. Its first entry depicts a mass of people queuing underneath ticket windows labeled "Chicago", "New York" and "St. Louis". For 10 points, name this series of works by Jacob Lawrence of African Americans fleeing the Deep South
Leah Dickerman curated a recent exhibit of these works, commissioning poems by Natasha Trethewey and others for the catalogue.
The Migration Series [or The Migration of the Negro]