September 7th, 1917, marks the birthday of Jacob Lawrence, one of the most important American figurative artists of the 20th century. In 1937, at the age of 20, Lawrence received a scholarship to attend the American Artists School in New York and the same year distinguished himself from the numerous young artists of the time by creating the famous "Toussant L'Ouverture" (1937), a 41-panel series depicting the Haitian slave uprising. The Haitian series started what was later