>> this is a group of works that jacob lawrence made when he was 23 years old. much of the work is concerned with how do you make the hard decision to leave home in pursuit of safety and opportunity and dignity and freedom. >> lawrence's epic series is one of the first attempts to tell the story of the mass movement. as millions moved to cities like chicago, pittsburgh and new york, they transformed more than the demographics. along the way, they brought the music, food, politics and speech that would forever change the culture of their new homes. >> this was also a period in the south when segregation and racial terror in the united states pushed a number of black people out of their communities, displaced them because they no longer wanted to live you should the daily fear of racial violence. >> the exhibition was created in collaboration with the shaumburg center for research in black culture. >> the great migration is a story of people doing for themselves what immigrant groups had done for generations and generations before, which was to vote with their fee

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. >>> plus stroke of genius, the painting of jacob lawrence and a new appreciation for this ground-breaking african american artist. ♪ >>> we begin with the crisis in greece, and the impact it is already having here and around the world. investors fearing greece will default on its debt they started selling and didn't stop selling. the dow dropped 350 points the worst day of the year. and in greece time is running out before its bailout program expires on tuesday. the banks are closed and there are severe limits on how much of their own money citizens can withdraw from atm's. in athens tens of thousands of anti-austerity demonstratored gathered to show support for greece's embattled government. many say they are confident that greeks will vote to stay in the euro zone in sunday's referendum. we get more from barnaby phillips. >> reporter: this petrol station on the edge of athens is closed until a tanker turns up with new supplies. as we drove around the city we saw about a third of stations were closed the result of pan aked buying over the weekend. but the greek economy could grind to a h

"america tonight"s christopher putzel with an epic drama captured by artist jacob lawrence, and the residence it has for us today

. >>> a sequence of 60 panels, and each with a caption by jacob lawrence. >>> that story of how you leave home is the american story, you have pictures that are scenes that are simple and of great tenderness and then you have scenes of hard hitting and addressed, to issues of racial violence and injustice. >>> the epic series is one first attempts to tell the story. as millions move to cities like chicago, pittsburgh and, new york they transformed more than the demographics, they brought the music food, politics and speech that would forever change the culture. >>> this was also a period in the south when segregation and racial terror, here in the united states, push he had a number of black people out of their community displaced them because they no longer wanted to live under the daily fear. >>> it was created, with the sham burg center, and the director said, it's a story of people doing for themselves, what i am make grant had done for generations, and generations before, which was to vote with their feet, and make a new life with themselves- >>> this work is almost 75 years old, and

migration, the main series a series much 60 panels each with a caption by the late great painter jacob lawrence. >> and that story of how you leave home is very much an american story. you have pictures that are simple and great tenderness and intimacy, and then you also have scenes of hard-hitting address to issues of racial violence and racial injustice. >> lawrence's epoch series is one of the first attempts to tell the story of the mass movement. as millions move to cities like chicago, pittsburgh and new york. they transformed more than demographics. along the way they brought the music, food, politics and speech that would forever change the culture of their new homes. >> this is also a period in the south when segregation and racial terror here in the united states pushed a number of black people out of their communities, displaced them, because they no longer wanted to live under the daily fear of racial violence. >> the exhibition was created in collaboration with the sham berg center. >> it's people doing for themselves what immigrant groups had done for generations and generations be

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>> guest: we did a wonderful show on the great american collage just who is a contemporary jacob lawrenceand his work is in museums around the world including the schomburg. that was a favorite show for a fine art show at the schomburg. we also did a gordon park show then looked at the photography of one of america's greatest fine arts and documentary. he got his start working on the new deal administration of roosevelt and worked at "time" magazine. we have also done terrific shows looking at early forms of photography going back to the 18 50's of antebellum african-americans here in new york and other parts of the country who ticked itself for pitcher for the purposes of telling their own stories and showing that they were people whose humanity should be respected and captured in the best light. we also did a great motown show colon operating with the motown museum and brought the original artifacts including marvin gaye's what's going on gold records and diana ross's supreme dresses that was all sequenced so those are the highlights of shows we have done here and we have done recently