Explain how Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series distinguished itself from other works of art and literature being produced during the Harlem Renaissance?

Jacob Lawrence THE MIGRATION SERIES
Edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Questions:

Read and use examples from the text above, explain how Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series distinguished itself from other works of art and literature being produced during the Harlem Renaissance?

Specifically, how did his approach to form differ from that of his predecessors in Black American painting?

Explain how Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series distinguished itself from other works of art and literature being produced during the Harlem Renaissance?
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