Talk:African-American architects

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Reads like an essay
I just had a look at this. While I think it is salvageable, the material constituting most of the first half of the article reads like an essay with an advocacy agenda. The only real alternatives are a serious rework or major cuts. If no one does the serious rework in the next few weeks, I will probably do the major cuts. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 17:51, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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Featuring More Men
I've concluded working on the African American women featured in Dreck Wilson's dictionary. I am checking his entries against who we have included on wikipedia. Here are the names of possible additions:


 * Lester Oliver Bankhead (1912–1997)
 * Joseph Manual Bartholomew Sr. (1881–1971)
 * Louis Arnett Stewart Bellinger (1891–1946)
 * Henry Clifford Boles (1910–1979)
 * Charles Sumner Bowman (c1873–unknown)
 * Sanford Augustus Brookins (1877–1968)
 * Albert Grant Brown (1881–1924)
 * Robert Lester Buffins (1892–1981)
 * Ralph Victor Cook (1875–1949)
 * William Wilson Cooke (1871–1949)
 * William Jefferson Decatur (1874–unknown)
 * Charles Edgar Dickinson (1908–1964)
 * Clyde Martin Drayton (1915–1983)
 * DeWitt Sanford Dykes Sr. (1903–1991)
 * Gaston Alonzo Edwards (1875–1943)
 * Robert Lionel Fields (1918–1985)
 * Wade Alston Ford (1886–1949)
 * Louis Edwin Fry Sr. (1903–2000)
 * Clinton Stevens Harris (1900–1992)
 * William Augustus Hazel (1854–1929)
 * Joseph E.Hill (unknown–1892)
 * James Edward Hutchins (1890–1970)
 * Percy Costa Ifill (1913–1973)
 * Leon Quincy Jackson (1926–1995)
 * Willie Edward Jenkins (1923–1988)
 * Harvey Nathaniel Johnson Sr. (1892–1973)
 * Arthur Edward Lankford (1879–1908)
 * Henry Lewis Livas (1912–1979)
 * Howard Hamilton Mackey Sr. (1901–1987)
 * William Henry Moses Jr. (1901–1991)
 * Kenneth Roderick O’Neal (1908–1989)
 * Joseph Lincoln Parker (1898–1959)
 * Henry James Price (1858–c1930)
 * Edward Lyons Pryce (1914–)
 * Leon Andrew Ransom Jr. (1929–1971)
 * Lawrence Reese (1865–1915)
 * Francis Jefferson Roberson (1862–1944)
 * Walter Lenox Roberts Jr. (1908–1982)
 * John Louis Wilson Jr. (1899–1989)
 * Edward Walter Owen Young (1874–unknown)

Note that the biographies on wikipedia included, are not strictly architects. Engineer Archie Alexander, lithographer/draftsman Grafton Tyler Brown, shop foreman Richard Mason Hancock. In the process of checking this list, I have also added a number of firsts to the list.Fred (talk) 03:42, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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Move discussion in progress
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Lead
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 * Their work in the more distant past was often overlooked or outright erased from the historical records due to the racist social dynamics at play in the country (and also due to the proxied nature of the profession itself), but the black members of the profession—and their historic contributions—have become somewhat more recognized since. "'The experience of being Black in architecture involves learning about a discipline that does not include the contributions of African American architects like Paul Revere Williams, Robert R. Taylor, Walter T. Bailey and Wallace Rayfield within the canons of the profession... The experience of being Black in architecture requires you to unearth the accomplishments of other Blacks in architecture to understand how they navigated the often tumultuous waters of the profession.' (Dr. Kwesi Daniels, MArch, MSc Sust. Mgmt, ABD)"

The source cited is from Cultured Magazine, a source so non-notable it was deleted from Wikipedia. Within that source is an interview with "Dr. Kwesi Daniels", from which the statement above was gleaned. Dr. Daniels is not a notable source, and his opinion, as well as the unsourced interpretation of that opinion made by the editor who added it, should be removed from the lead. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:52, 24 February 2021 (UTC)