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The Whitney Museum of Art

 

Whitney Website
 and Webquests

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

The Phillips - In conjunction with the exhibit

The Phillips Collection: Traveling Exhibits

 

 

RESOURCE COLLECTIONS

The Archive: Jacob Lawrence

 

WEBSITES ABOUT JACOB LAWRENCE

Top Blacks.com
Jacob Lawrence, famous painter 

 

MUSEUM RESOURCES

 

Arts Online
Jacob Lawrence and Langston Hughes

LA Arts Partnership (LA Unified School District, Getty Inst.)

 

 

 

UNIVERSITIES

 

The Great Migration

Columbia University faculty member site

 

 

ART AND MUSIC

Vaudeville and Ragtime 

 

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

National Geographic - The Underground Railroad

 

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

The Harlem Renaissance

The American Library of Montpellier

Harlem Renaissance

Personal Site

 

Artists and Musicians of the Harlem Renaissance

 

 

 

 

Books Illustrated by Jacob Lawrence


One-Way Ticket,
Langston Hughes
1948

Aesop's Fables

Genesis
King James version of the Book of Genesis
1990

Harriet and the Promised Land
Jacob Lawrence with verses by Robert Kraus

Hiroshima
John Hersey
1983
 

GENERAL RESEARCH SITES

 

African American Resources

Smithsonian

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Community Learning Network
Art History Theme Page

Black History Quest

Tools for Learning

 

SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION

 

The Terrible Transformation

1998 WGBH Educational Foundation

 

From Slavery to Freedom
The African American Pamphlet Collection

Library of Congress

 

Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism

Columbia Heights Association, Wash., D.C.

 

Studies in the World History of Slavery, 
Abolition and Emancipation

1997 Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition &  Emancipation.

 

Slavery in the United States

AfroAmerican Museum