American Struggle: Teens Respond to Jacob Lawrence

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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was one of the greatest narrative painters in American art history, and perhaps the most important African American artist of the twentieth century.  He developed a series of thirty panels over the course of two years, each measuring 12 × 16 inches, depicting signal moments in the American Revolution and the early decades of the American republic, as well as featuring the words and actions of founding fathers, enslaved people, women, and Native Americans.  In the spirit of…