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This page is for listing bibliographic info for books, magazine articles, etc. that cover Black architects. We can also put information about library databases, etc., that will help us find such sources.

An excellent 2001 article from Detroit Free Press: [1] and the jump [2]

Key Research[edit]

African-American Architects: a biographical dictionary, 1865-1945, by Dreck Spurlock Wilson (2004)[edit]

Donna White
Francis Griffin

Internet Archive[edit]

Here is a pre-populated search on "Black architect"
- A search on "architect" in the book Getting It Together: Black Businessmen in America (1971)
- African-American Architects: a biographical dictionary, 1865-1945, by Dreck Spurlock Wilson (2004)

Encyclopedia of African-American Business:
- Volume 1
- Volume 2

African American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History:

Afro-American Journal and Directory, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1894

Black heritage sites : an African American odyssey and finder's guide

Black Architects, Ebony, 2005

Example Maps[edit]

The_20th-Century_Architecture_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright - example maps with labels

RESEARCH & Wikipedia RESOURCES / KIT-OF-PARTS[edit]

Research / Media[edit]

Publishers[edit]

Johnson Publishing Company[edit]

Johnson Publishing Company was an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by African-American businessman John H. Johnson. It was headquartered in Chicago.

Publications[edit]

See Johnson Publishing Publications for more info
Ebony – monthly general interest magazine (November 1, 1945 – June 2016)<ref name="JetEbony50"/><ref name=EBO/>
EbonyJet.com – branded web presence (circa 2007 – June 2016)
Ebony Jr! (May 1973 – October 1985),^[1] resumed online in 2007^[2]
Negro Digest (November 1942 – November 1951) resumed in June 1961, renamed Black World (May 1970 – April 1976)^[3]^[4]

^ Ebony jr! (microform), Record No. b10212098. New York Public Library Catalog. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
^ Henderson, Laretta (July 15, 2008). Ebony Jr!: The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Black Children's Magazine. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810861343.
^ Johnson, Abby Arthur; Johnson, Ronald Maberry (1991). Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 162. ISBN 0870234021.
^ Lomotey, Kofi (2009). "Negro Digest". Encyclopedia of African American Education. Vol. 1. SAGE Publications. p. 490. ISBN 978-1412940504.

[1] Ebony jr! (microform), Record No. b10212098. New York Public Library Catalog. Retrieved December 28, 2012.

[2] Henderson, Laretta (July 15, 2008). Ebony Jr!: The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Black Children's Magazine. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810861343.

[litpoli-3] Johnson, Abby Arthur; Johnson, Ronald Maberry (1991). Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 162. ISBN 0870234021.

[LomoteyND-4] Lomotey, Kofi (2009). "Negro Digest". Encyclopedia of African American Education. Vol. 1. SAGE Publications. p. 490. ISBN 978-1412940504.

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