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«We're from the rural South,» he said.

University of Maryland and Derek Bermel December 2, 8 pm, at Dekelboum Concert Hall Derek Bermel's Migration Series is performed in conjunction with The Phillips Collection's exhibition of The Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence, depicting the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between the World Wars.

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small paintings with captions about the Great Migration, the multi-decade mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North that started around 1915.

A powerful visual epic, «The Migration Series» (1940 — 41) documents the historic movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North more than a century ago.

Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series (1940 — 41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and World War II — a development that had received little previous public attention.

7, 2015) that presents Lawrence's paintings in context with interpretations of the mass migration from the rural South to the urban North by other artists spanning generations and discplines, including literature, poetry, film and music.

The decades following the First World War saw one of the largest demographic shifts in United States history as African Americans relocated from the rural South to the industrial North during The Great Migration.

The dynamic exhibition gave context to Jacob Lawrence «s visual exploration of the African American migration from the rural South to the Industrial North by juxtaposing novels, poems, music, photographs and paintings by other artists with the series.

Ballen's well - known works include the photographic series «Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa» (1982 — 1986), «Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa» (1986 — 1994), «Outland» (1995 — 2000), «Shadow Chamber» (2000 — 2004) and «Boarding House» (2004 — 2008).

The series, which charts the mass migration of African American's from the rural South, was last displayed in its entirety in 1994 (image at top of post).

These paintings documented the Great Migration, an influx of African Americans from the rural South into northern cities during the first half of the 20th century.

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades - long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915 — 16.

There was the Great Migration of African - Americans from the rural south to the rest of the country during the First World War.

-- Gina Prince - Bythewood wrote and directed this moving drama, based on the best - selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, about a 14 - year old girl (Dakota Fanning) who, longing to find out more about her deceased mother, runs away from rural South Carolina home and winds up in the care of a beekeeper (Queen Latifah) and her sisters (Alicia Keys, sophie Okonedo).

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Tom worked as regional policy advisor to the Leader of the Opposition in the South Australian Parliament before working at Elders Rural Services, one of Australia's largest agri - retailers, from 2006 - 2013.

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And white supremacist violence was used to dissuade black Americans from starting their own ventures or moving out of the rural South where persecution was most vicious.

«We serve the greater Atlanta area, from the wealthy suburbs of Alpharetta, historic Old Fourth Ward, and eclectic Little Five Points village to the sleepy rural towns dotted south of Atlanta,» President Kiefer Pirrung says.

This compared with just a 1 per cent rise in rural values from 2012 to 2014 to $ 98 billion, due mainly to distressed dairy farm sales in the state's south - west.

A crowd of people from across rural Queensland and New South Wales gathered at the Outback to Oyster Cocktail Party last night.

Migration from South Asia to the UK over the past 60 years has not severed the deep ties between the migrants» villages - of - origin in rural Punjab and Mirpur.

It follows the young Madiba from his childhood, being brought up in a rural village, all the way up to his inauguration as the first democratically elected black president of South Africa — with an account of his much - publicised 27 years in prison in between.

Miles continued, «One of the big questions in South West is whether the villas in the South West were owned by Britons who have become Roman or owned by people from another part of the Empire who have come to exploit an under - developed rural area.

But there should be a recognition that the genes located in the US and elsewhere come from Asia, from South America and from Africa,» says Pat Mooney, director of the Rural Advancement Foundation International, and an ardent campaigner for genetic diversity.

The Health and Retirement Study consists of older volunteers sampled from urban and rural areas across the U.S., while the Southern Community Cohort Study focuses on African Americans in the South, particularly areas that have a disproportionately high burden of disease.

He had moved to Mysore to study with T. Krishnamacharya from a small village in rural South India and attended Mysore University, studying Sanskrit.

A few studies have shown that gut microbiota diversity is much greater in people from rural regions of Africa and South America than those from Europe or the US (8, 9).

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Performed between musical acts, the monologues were adapted from stories written by children from Rammulotsi, a rural township in South Africa.

A few years after graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998, David Gordon Green found critical success with his debut feature, George Washington, a lyrical coming - of - age story set in the rural South.

The production design from Chad Keith and cinematography from Adam Stone — both Nichols collaborators — are great, and creates a view of the rural South as emptiness relieved only by the detritus of long - gone industry.

are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income schools; in rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and everywhere in between.»

The senators hail from largely rural states, many of which are considered «red» or swing states in presidential elections, including Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

From this the authors conclude that school segregation in the 21st century is not a South, North, urban, suburban, or rural issue.

For the record, since frankb1 has persisted in attacking me, I taught public school for 18 years in the rural South, and have been a strong advocate for school reform from day one.

But in the civil rights struggle, action was shifting from the soft - spoken rural South to the hard - edged urban North.

Traversing the South Korean landscape, from the rural fishing village of Pusan to the bustling capital of Seoul, This Burns My Heart is truly a slice of history, capturing a country very much in transition.

Growing her own vegetables, eating eggs from her hens, drinking milk from her goat and even water from her own spring that flows at the bottom of her garden in rural South - West Wales.

In 1984 I moved from the rural midwest to somewhat rural south, northern Alabama to be precise.

You'll find a different pace in North Georgia, where the economy is tied in with border cities, a faster pace (and more interesting driving) as you head into Atlanta, and then further south you'll find more peaceful rural areas dotted by tourist traps selling tickets to a variety of things you're still hours away from.

The dogs were popular in the rural South, and they were used by farmers and ranch hands to protect herds and people from bears, raccoon, squirrel, and wild boar.

She came from a rural shelter in South Carolina and brings us laughter and adventure.

The company donates a portion of sales to Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue, an all - breed rescue nonprofit that uses a network of fosters and volunteers to find new homes for adoptable dogs they rescue from high - kill rural shelters in the South.

It is our second largest event of the year and provides Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue with the support we need to continue the important work of rescuing dogs from high kill shelters in the mostly rural South.

Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, all volunteer network of rescuers, fosters and volunteers who work together to rescue, rehabilitate and find homes for sweet, loving, adoptable dogs from pounds in the rural south.

Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit network of rescuers, fosters and volunteers who work together to rescue, rehabilitate and find homes for sweet, loving, adoptable dogs from pounds in the rural south.

Sara Alize Cross founded the grassroots network of rescuers, fosters and volunteers in 2011 and has since found homes for some 900 dogs sprung from shelters in the rural south.