How painter Jacob Lawrence reframed early American history with ‘Struggle’ Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence ...

Stokely Carmichael had already served 49 days inside a Mississippi prison farm for nonviolent civil rights activism ... American artist in the nation, Jacob Lawrence, to produce the portrait.

Victory and Defeat, Panel 13 from "Struggle: From the History of the American People," 1954-56, by Jacob Lawrence. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The ...