💪🏽Steel workers were part of Jacob Lawrences’ Migration series.✨ ⚙️A series in which Lawrence depicted the acceleration of Industrialization in the 1930’s and 1940’s through images of factories, machinery, and steel workers. African Americans were often given the most dangerous jobs in industrial plants some of which led to severe health problems until the Congress of Industrial. Jacob Lawrence, Steel Workers, 1945 Gouche and ink on hardboard, 14 × 21 in. Gift in loving memory of Emil and Edith Oxfeld, 2025 2025.3.1 #jacoblawrence #nmoa #blackhistorymonth