The Migration Of The Negro (Series) By Jacob Lawrence

It has been well documented that migration has played a significant role in the development of the United States. African Americans participated in migration just as much as whites did and have been migrating all throughout the United States since the first African slave ship made its way to Jamestown in 1619. Florette Henri’s Black Migration: Movement North, 1900-1920 (1975) focuses on the beginning of the large-scale relocation of black people from the South to the North and West.

George Orwell includes a strong message in his novel Animal Farm that is easily recognizable. Orwell’s Animal Farm focuses on two primary problems that were not only prominent in his WWII society, but also posed as reoccurring issues in all societies past and present. Orwell’s novel delivers a strong political message about class structure and oppression from the patriarchal society through an allegory of a farm that closely resembles the Soviet Union.

Lawrence is best known for his epic series that grew out of this influential time. Comprising as many as sixty paintings each, these series depict such subjects as the successful Haitian slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, Harriet Tubman's work in the Underground Railroad, the life of Abolitionist writer and orator Frederick Douglass, and the Great Migration of African Americans from southern farms to northern cities.

George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, was his very first piece of political writing. On the surface, this novel is about a group of miserable and mistreated farm animals that overthrow their neglectful owner; they take control of the farm. However, it too is a political allegory mainly focusing on the Russian Revolution. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in response to what had occurred in the Russian Revolution. Seeing how the people were being manipulated over for their freedom, he decided to write about these events through farm animals. The author's purpose for writing this novel is to warn his audience that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutly. Orwell's intent in fusing political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole, was truly

George Orwell painted an allegorical depiction of Communist Russia with Animal Farm: a short Roman à clef centered around a farmstead and its inhabitants. The pigs in Animal Farm declared the animals of independent and took control of their naïve counterparts, and set off to run the world’s first farm run independently by animals. Orwell exploited the tyranny of Jones and Napoleon to convey the inevitability of corruption that comes with dictatorial authority and disclose history repeating itself throughout the course of the short story.

Jacob Lawrence undoubtedly made tremendous strides and helped to carve a new path for African American art. His lifelong passion for art led him to lead the way for new African American artists to emerge. As Lawrence’s mother worked, “she sent [her kids] to an after-school arts and crafts program where ‘Alston was one of the first to recognize [Jacob’s] abilities” (Contemporary Black Biography). This esteemed honor allowed Jacob’s life passion to arise and acted as a stepping stone for the rest of his life's work. In addition, Jacob’s poor upbringing sparked the inspiration for his best-known series, “Migration of the Negro or simply The Migration Series, in 1941” (Contemporary Black Biography). As Jacob grew older “ his eyes began to pick up more on the poverty, racial struggles, delinquencies, and officer brutalities”, which pushed Jacob to make a difference (Burden of Racism). This additionally, helped to further kindle his need to

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an allegory based on problems resulting from the Russian Revolution. In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses tone, characterization, and stylistic elements to show that people in power use manipulation to stay in power.

Poverty has always been an issue throughout centuries. In most areas living conditions were horrible due to wars, and corruption within cities and states. Most families lost their male sons to the draft of the war at the ages of 6 years or older. Families struggled and did what they had to, to maintain a home as well as food for their families. Because of this Social Realism was successful. Social Realism was an international movement that many artists and composers where a part of. This movement highlights inequalities of capitalism, and gave the chance to these artists and composers to express everyday living conditions of the working class and the poor through their work. Diego Rivera is one of those artists that through his work showed the struggle of the poor, he was one of the most famous muralists in the Mexican Social Realism. The Harlem Renaissance was known as the “New Negro Movement” where African Americans where forced out of Southern states to the urban areas due to the Great Migration. Jacob Lawrence was one of those that expressed his thought on the Great Migration describing it as the push and pull factors.

The great migration is a term used to define a period of flight for many African Americans of the 20th century who initially lived in the south, but due to the harsh conditions they faced, over 6 million relocated to large urban cities in the North, West, and Midwest. This migration compared to any other one in our past history is extremely different to note, because it was not caused by famine or genocide, it was a voluntary act made by African Americans in the south ranging from 1916 to 1970. It is very critical to discuss because it was one of the largest migrations in documented human history, other than the involuntary movement of slavery. The great migration not only spiked a time of change for African Americans of the south, but for

The Great Migration, is known as the largest in U.S. history, African Americans, left the rural south for cities and came with their hopes and their dreams of a new and different life, seeking relief from labor exploitation and white violence. The migration sparked the Harlem Renaissance which coincided with the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Lost Generation, leaving an impact that was keenly felt not only on a collective level but also on an individual level within the African-American communities. This impact affected America's robust cultural industries, music, film, theater all of which fully benefited from the creativities contributions of African Americans. The Harlem Renaissance continues to be the period we attribute to the

Writing in the April, 1915, issue of Crisis, DuBois said: "In art and literature we should try to loose the tremendous emotional wealth of the Negro and the dramatic strength of his problems through writing ... and other forms of art. We should resurrect forgotten ancient Negro art and history, and we should set the black man before the world as both a creative artist and a strong subject for artistic treatment."

Visual artists were also a significant force in this era. One of the popular artists of the movement was Henry Ossawa Tanner, an man of international acclaim whose exhibits included the famed Paris Salon. His noted oil painting, "The Banjo Lesson," is a valued piece of the collection of the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, Virginia. During the 1920's, he was recognized as the most important black artist of his generation.

In the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, the animals take over the farm and develop their own independent society. Just as it happened during the Russian Revolution of 1917. George Orwell underlies the tension between the oppressed and the exploiting classes between the condescending ideals and harsh realities of socialism.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical allegory through which he presents his cynical view of human nature. He uses the animal fable effectively to expose the issues of injustice, exploitation and inequality in human society.

Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is an allegory in which animals play the roles of Russian revolutionists, and overthrow the human owners of the farm. Once the farm has been taken over by the animals, they are all equal at first, but class and status soon separates the different animal species. This story describes how a society’s ideologies can be manipulated by those in political power, to cause corruption by those in leadership.