The publication accompanies the nationally touring exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle on view at the Peabody Essex Museum from January 18 to April 26, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from June 2 to September 7, 2020, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, from October 17, 2020, to January 10, 2021, the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, from February 25 to May 31, 2021, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, from June 26 to September 19, 2021.
Austen Barron Bailly is The George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum.