Painting Harlem modern: the art of Jacob Lawrence

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

Patrons and the making of a professional artist

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 1940s

Home in Harlem: tenements and streets

The double consciousness of masks and masking

The paintings of the protest years, 1955-70

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Jacob Armstead Lawrence and his family.