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Jacob Lawrence - Reference
Biographical and historical resources from encyclopedias, magazines and newspapers. Images and radio programs. From the Gale Biography in Context database.
Art: 1940
From the Classroom Video on Demand database: In the Deep South, the Ku Klux Klan and white militias lynched African-Americans. Southerners fled to Chicago, Detroit, and New York during the Great Migration; Jacob Lawrence captured the movement in a geometric manner. A segment from the documentary "Black is the Color."
Painter Jacob Lawrence's early American 'Struggle'
A segment from PBS Newshour. Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence, the most famous black artist of his era, sought to reframe early American history the way he saw it. His ensuing work, the sprawling series “Struggle,” has been reassembled for a national tour, stopping first at Massachusetts' Peabody Essex Museum.

Propaganda
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Propaganda - The British Library
Articles and overviews of the types and effects of British propaganda during the World War I.
The National Archives: Powers of Persuasion
Poster art from World War II
Revere's Boston Massacre
Engraved and distributed by Paul Revere. A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. From the Library of Congress.

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