The Migration Series, Panel no. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel 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. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries. (between 1940 and 1941)