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American struggle, teens respond to Jacob Lawrence, writing by teens working with Peabody Essex Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Birmingham Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, The Phillips Collection, Thrugood Marshall Academy, Bostom Community Leadership Academy ; with contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Lydia Gordon, Barbara Earl Thomas, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner; edited by Chul R. Kim

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American struggle

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writing by teens working with Peabody Essex Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Birmingham Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, The Phillips Collection, Thrugood Marshall Academy, Bostom Community Leadership Academy ; with contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Lydia Gordon, Barbara Earl Thomas, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner; edited by Chul R. Kim

teens respond to Jacob Lawrence

In the mid-1950s, as Brown v. Board of Education felled the ideology of "separate but equal," the great African-American artist Jacob Lawrence saw the need for a version of American history that reckoned with its complexities and contradictions yet was shared by all its citizens. The result was his monumental work Struggle: from the History of the American People. Lawrence, the best known black American artist of the 20th century, developed the series of thirty panels, each measuring 12 x 16 inches, over the course of two years. Lawrence created the panels as history you could hold in your hands and intended to reproduce the images in a book that he never realized. The paintings depict signal moments in the American Revolution and the early decades of the American republic, and feature the words and actions of founding fathers, enslaved people, women, and Native Americans. In the spirit of Lawrence's project, this collection includes brief interpretive texts written by teens in response to the Struggle series. This illustrated book features a chorus of thirty singular young adult voices expressing how Lawrence and his Struggle series speaks to them on a personal, emotional level. The young writers come from a broad variety of races and ethnicities, nationalities, religions, genders, sexualities, and abilities, and underrepresented voices. As Jacob Lawrence mined American history to reflect upon events he saw happening around him in segregation-era America, these young adults use these panels to comment on their experiences in today's America

Teens respond to Jacob Lawrence: Struggle for freedom -- Struggle to survive -- Struggle for power -- Struggle for a voice -- Struggle to belong -- Jacob Lawrence's series Struggle: from the history of the American people

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Teens respond to Jacob Lawrence