Editing Jacob Lawrence (section)

==== Publications ====
Lawrence illustrated several works for children. ''Harriet and the Promised Land'' appeared in 1968 and used the series of paintings that told the story of Harriet Tubman.<ref>{{cite news | work = [[The New York Times]] | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/17/317683372.html | date = November 17, 1968 | access-date = August 17, 2020 | first = Hilton | last = Kramer | title = For Young Readers | archive-date = September 28, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200928093350/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/17/317683372.html | url-status = live }}</ref> It was listed as one of the year's best illustrated books by ''The New York Times'' and praised by the ''Boston Globe'': "The author's artistic talents, sensitivity and insight into the black experience have resulted in a book that actually creates, within the reader, a spiritual experience." Two similar volumes based on his John Brown and Great Migration series followed.<ref>{{cite news | work = The New York Times | access-date = August 17, 2020 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1994/02/13/059048.html | date = February 13, 1994 | title = Children's Books; Black History | first = Connie | last = Porter | archive-date = September 28, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200928093351/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1994/02/13/059048.html | url-status = live }}</ref> Lawrence created illustrations for a selection of 18 of [[Aesop's Fables]] for Windmill Press in 1970, and the [[University of Washington Press]] published the full set of 23 tales in 1998.<ref>{{cite news | work =The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/books/children-s-books-bookshelf-891088.html | access-date = August 17, 2020 | date = March 15, 1998 | title = Children's Books; Bookshelf }}</ref>