"The Exodus From Dixie" Original grease pencil/ink by Robert "Bob" Minor 1923

Description

This is an original pen and ink drawing by Robert Minor. It was drawn for the Liberator magazine in 1923. Robert Minor (1884-1952) was a political cartoonist and journalist. He
developed artistic and writing skills doing odd jobs for his hometown
San Antonio Gazette
, gaining interest in political cartoons. By 1910 he had become the popular chief cartoonist at the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and one of the first American cartoonists to use grease crayon on paper, which produced a lithographic effect.
The Exodus from Dixie - or the Great Migration - occured between
1915 and 1930 when over 1.5 million African Americans fled the U.S. south for northern and western cities locales. It is estimated that a total of 6 million migrated north over the next forty years.
The drawing is 12 inches by 20 inches. Signature on the front. On the back is written in pencil "For Liberator 799 Bway Deliver Monday afternoon at Active Press 33 East First St."
The last photo is how it appeared in the magazine.
metadata: BLM, The Black Migration, Abolitionists, Black history, Racial Segregation, African American history, Jim Crow laws, Juneteenth