Painting Harlem modern: the art of Jacob Lawrence

Part One. The artist's place in Harlem; Harlem's artistic community in the 1930's

Patrons and the making of a professional artist

Part Two. Themes and Issues; African American storytelling: Toussaint L'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman

The great migration in memory, pictures, and text

Confrontations with the Jim Crow South in the 1940's

Home in Harlem: tenements and streets

The double consciousness of masks and masking

The paintings of the protest years, 1955-70.