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Blind Singer

William H. Johnson, 1940
Blind Singer, William H. Johnson
Blind Singer, zoomed in
44.5 cmBlind Singer scale comparison29.2 cm

Blind Singer is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Screenprint Painting created by William H. Johnson in 1940. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Musicians and Black Subjects. SourceSee Blind Singer in the Kaleidoscope

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1942
Migration Series No.14: For African Americans there was no justice in the southern courts, Jacob Lawrence

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Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, Pardons the Sentry, Horace Pippin

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Surgeon, Leonora Carrington

Surgeon

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Migration Series No.5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
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Emily Carr, 1938 – 1940
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Anne Goldthwaite, 1935 – 1940
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Luigi Russolo, 1940

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