It was a time when there were few African-American architects in the entire United States.

His architectural legacy constitutes one of the most significant bodies of work by an African-American architect.

Harry Simmons Jr., a celebrated African-American architect who had designed the building, died in a plane crash in 1994.

African-American architects of note, the professor casually informed him, were virtually nonexistent.

The theatre was designed by Harvey Johnson, an African-American architect.

George Washington Foster (1866-1923) was an early African-American architect.

As a result, he said, a high proportion of the nation's African-American architects work in the Washington area.

Yet many African-American architects reject the notion that they should be doing a specifically black form of architecture.

Bailey was the first licensed African-American architect in the state of Illinois.

In the early 1900s he was held up as an example to aspiring young African-American architects.