Artwork, Beverly Loraine Green & Stuy Town, New York, FAC 461 - Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album - new limited edition. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, First African American woman licensed as an architect, Columbia Celebrates Black History and Culture, Office of Communications and Public Affairs, Columbia University in the City of New York. magazine, gallery and shop dedicated to modernist architecture & design, COMING SOON: After receiving a bachelor of architecture degree, she continued her studies at the University of Illinois in the graduate program of City Planning and Housing. In response to a question about how many women were in his class, he responded: Very few. Her legacy cannot be understated. It was held at the Unity Funeral Home in New York, a structure she helped design. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1942. Awards & Honors: Legion of Honor for her work with the Chicago chapter of France Forever. Beverly L. Greene. This resulted in a move to New York in 1945, where Greene applied for a role on the Metropolitan Life Insurance Companys new development of Stuyvesant TownPeter Cooper Village (often referred to as Stuy Town), a large-scale post-war housing project situated on a 72 acre site on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NY. [1], After graduation, she returned to Chicago and worked for Kenneth Roderick O'Neal's architecture firm in 1937, the first architectural office led by an African American in downtown Chicago,[4][5] before she was hired by the Housing Authority in 1938. Firms & Partnerships: Holabird and Root, 1930s; Rand McNally, 1930s; Historical American Building Survey Work, 1930s; Montgomery Ward, n.d.; Private Practice, beginning in 1959; Designed offices, factories, displays, and machinery for Lindberg Engineering Company in the 1940s. There werent many girls. Rudard Jones Oral History interview by Ellen Swain, April 4, 2001, transcript in Voices of Illinois, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. While recovering, he developed pneumonia, at times requiring an oxygen tank to help him breathe. Beverly L. Greene never let anything stand in her way when it came to pursuing her dreams in architecture. Personal Information. Wells project: The Housing Authority further stated that Miss Beverly Greene who is one of the few Race women in the United States to receive a graduate degree in architecture, will be appointed as an architect in the office of the Chicago Housing Authority to develop plans for additional housing projects.99Race Given Construction Jobs for Ida B. Under construction from 1939 to 1941, the 1662-unit, low-rise Public Works Administration (PWA) Wells project was built to house black families segregated on the South Side, while three other completed CHA housing projects in Chicago were intended exclusively for white families. In 1942, Greene was licensed in the State of Illinois as an architect. Her hire was announced the following month in the Chicago Defender, which suggested that Greenes talents would be used beyond the Ida B. Courtesy of the Chicago Daily Tribune. She had no brothers or sisters. Wells Archival Image & Media Collection, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.Arch., 1936, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S. Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. By the late 1980s, this housing project was known as a drug and crime haven. African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary. While Greene was still working for Breuer, she completed two renovation projects in Harlem on her own. Segons l'editor arquitectnic Dreck Spurlock Wilson, s probable que "ella hagi estat la primera dona afroamericana registrada com a arquitecta als Estats Units."[1] Es va registrar com a tal a Illinois en 1942. Its a travel magazine of sorts..Out now. The Unity Funeral Home opened its doors on August 9, 1953 and quickly became one of Harlems most enduring mortuaries.2626Woman Architects Services at Unity, New York Amsterdam News, September 7, 1957. That said, shortly after taking up the position, Greene won a scholarship to study urban planning from Columbia University and quickly left the project in order to return to education full-time, graduating with a Master of Arts in architecture. Three of Greenes employersarchitects Isadore Rosenfield, Edward Durrell Stone, and Marcel Breuerwere all members and supporters of CANA, whose tenets encouraged the employing of black architects.2121Why Whites Would Work in C.A.N.A. CANA Newsletter 14, no.1 (June 1963). In 1942, Beverly Loraine Greene was believed to be the first female architect licensed in the United States. Woman Architects Services at Unity (obituary). 10.03.23 -13.05.23 [7] She and other black architects were routinely ignored by the mainstream Chicago press. Professional Organizations & Activities: Chicago Women in Architecture, Founder AIA, RIBA, NCARB; Executive director of SOM foundation 2010-2019; National Trust of Great Britain; Architecture and Design Society of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago Architecture Foundation, Auxiliary Board Member since 1971, Awards & Honors: SAH award 2010; Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 2021, Date of Birth / Location: November 1, 1905 / Illinois, Date of Death / Location: September 22, 1983 / Oak Park, Illinois. In April 1944, she was part of the cast in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. She worked at her new job at Met Life for only two-and-a-half days before leaving to become a full-time student. Some black women who had read Greenes interview saw this as evidence of Metropolitan Life Insurances willingness to hire black employees during this period, and they applied for office work. a. The Sweet Corn Society b. She received a masters in architecture from Columbia on June 5, 1945. The family was of African-American heritage. Greene was born Milton H. Greengold into a Jewish family in New York City on March 14, 1922. Omoleye Ojuri, honorary lecturer at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction discusses her vocation to positively impact young peoples lives. Biography [ edit] (n.d.). Firms and Partnerships Chicago Housing Authority, 1938-45; Firm of Isadore Rosefield, ca. The cause of death wasn't immediately known, but the Pro Football Hall of . Professional Organizations & Activities: Adelaide was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Upon graduation from Columbia, Greene then went on to work for Isadore Rosenfield on the design of healthcare facilities (including Unity Funeral Home in New York where Greenes own memorial service would later be held), a role she stayed in until 1955. Wells Homes opened in 1941, and Greene was licensed in Illinois on December 28, 1942 (Certificate Number 3002), at the age of twenty-six. Education: University of British Columbia; Iowa State College; Ashwell also studied for two years in England with the urban planner Thomas Mawson. Biography. STAFFORD Gary and Lorraine Parker were found lying together some distance from their all-terrain vehicle, their bodies heavily injured from sharp vegetation in the underbrush. That year, Greene was part of an African American committee that raised money to purchase an ambulance for the International Brigade fighting with the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War.33Name Spain Ambulance Committee, Chicago Defender, December 18, 1937. ", Pioneering Women of American Architecture, Beverly Lorraine Greene, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beverly_Lorraine_Greene&oldid=1140911200, First female African-American licensed architect in the US, Winthrop House Rockefeller addition, Tarrytown, N.Y., 1952, New York University Building Complex, University Heights campus, Bronx, N.Y., 1956. However, the War has ended that, and Negro women in the postwar world will have a fertile field in architecture. Beverly Loraine Greene va ser una arquitecta americana. The names of other projects were mentioned in published obituaries. Beverly Loraine Greene. Wells Houses. Early on in her career, Greene established contacts with leading black architects, contacts that would lead to her first major professional opportunities. Marian Logan, a nationally-known civil rights advocate who was once a cabaret singer, sang at Greenes funeral. Date of Birth / Location: October 4, 1915 / Chicago, Illinois, Date of Death / Location: August 22, 1957 / New York, New York. The Council for the Advancement of the Negro in Architecture was an organization founded in 1953 by the leading African American architect in New York at the time, John Louis Wilson, FAIA. Later, in 1961 and 1970, two additional, large-scale complexes were built adjacent to the Ida B. He passed away on Dec. 15, 1966, due to complications from surgery he had a month earlier to treat the cancer. At the time, the staff consisted of seven white male architects and was led by Henry K. Holsman, FAIA.1212Race Architect to Work on $7,000,000 Project, Chicago Defender, October 9, 1939. In October 1938, the Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Joseph W. McCarthy informed Foster that the employment of black architects and drafters could only be considered after CHA received approval and a federal loan contract for the project. Between 1951 until shortly before her death in 1957, Greene worked in Marcel Breuers office, where she was a draftsperson on several projects, including the Grosse Pointe Library in Grosse Point, Michigan (1953) and a servants quarters addition for the Winthrop Rockefeller house in Tarrytown, New York (1952).2424Greenes name appears on two projects in the online archives for the Marcel Breuer Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries. 2022 the modernist - 58 Port Street Manchester, M1 2EQ. Aileen was part of the Modern Homes Division at Sears, Roebuck, & Co. Professional Organizations & Activities: Chicago Women's Architectural Club (CWA), Secretary. Firms & Partnerships: Mary Colter was named the official Architect and Designer for the Fred Harvey company in 1910, she held the position until she retired in 1940. 1945-1955; Worked with Marcel Breuer on the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and with Edward Durrell Stone on the Sarah Lawrence College Arts Complex at the University of Arkansas. AIA's 2016 Firm Survey Report. Early life. Greene went on to work for a number of notable architectural firms. For the psychologist, see, Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 11:16, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, "The Illinois School of Architecture: A History of Firsts", "Built By Women: Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town, Beverly Loraine Greene", "Research project spotlights African-American architects from U. of I. The designs were rejected. The cause of death is listed as respiratory arrest followed by cardiac arrest, said Saint John's spokeswoman Mary Miller. Beverly L. Greene ('45 M.Arch, 1915-57) was the first African American women architect licensed to practice in the United States; Norma Merrick Sklarek ( '50 B.Arch, 1926-2012) was the first African American woman to be made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. (n.d.). Both graduates of Columbia's University's architecture program . Her knowledge in both urban planning and architecture took her to jobs in notable firms and in local authorities, both in Chicago and New York and no matter where she found herself, she always used her platform as the first African American woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States, to advocate for professional black woman throughout her 18-year career. Greenes work spans multiple projects but she is best known for her designs for the University of Arkansas, New York University and the UNESCO United Nations Headquarters in Paris and even though she died at the very young age of 41, her unique perspective and love of architecture is still an inspiration today. Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1929; Master's of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1930. Served on the Council for the Advancement of the Negro in Architecture. Beverly Loraine Greene as a student at University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Thesids: "A Group of University Buildings.". Professional Organizations & Activities: First documented African American Woman architect licensed in United States. The group included A. L. Foster, executive director of the Chicago Urban League and president of the Chicago Council of Negro Organizations (CCNO). He was 72. However, Greene still had a desire for learning and left the Stuyvesant Town assignment to accept a scholarship that allowed her to earn a masters degree in architecture from Columbia University on June 5, 1945. The University of Illinois was racially integrated, although not without great challenges for African Americans, by the time Greene attended college. The need for housing for black families was so great that 17,544 people applied to live in the Wells project.1010Arnold Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 19401960 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 30). According to architectural editor Dreck Spurlock Wilson, she was "believed to have been the first African-American female licensed as an architect in the United States." [1] [2] She was registered as an architect in Illinois in 1942. After the rejection by the federal government, Foster collaborated with the NTA and other black civic organizations to lobby the City: they asked for the construction of a housing project that would serve Chicagos black population and for the hiring of black architects, drafters, technicians, and sub-contractors to work on the project. [1] Despite her credentials, she found it difficult to surmount race barriers to find work in the city. Chicago was still a tough crowd. UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. Greene may have known them or other black architects before moving to New York, but becoming a member of the Council for the Advancement of the Negro in Architecture (CANA) established by Wilson, brought her into greater contact with black practitioners. She moved to New York City in 1945 to work on the planned Stuyvesant Town private housing project in lower Manhattan being built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company butquit to accept a scholarship at Columbia University, where she studiedurban planning. Edited by Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, 2023 Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Beverly Lorraine Greene (1915-1957) was the first African American woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States. These articles must be merged (although I think the present . She first made history by becoming the first African-American female to earn a bachelor of science degree in architectural engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1936. Biographical Sources. Do you find this information helpful? Greene collaborated with an architectural firm headed by Isadore Rosenfield that specialized primarily in healthcare and hospital design. Getty Images, Bettman collection. In 1944, Greene applied for a position as an architect with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City, which was planning to build an 8,000-unit housing complex in Lower Manhattan. Exhibition Edith C. Antognoli (circa 1965). She would also have known Norma Fairweather, later known as Norma Sklarek (New York States first black female architect, licensed in 1954). Originally known by its WPA assigned name: South Park Garden Housing Project, at the urging of several black civic organizations including the NTA, CCNO and Taylor, the only black commissioner, the project was renamed for Ida B. (2004). I often wondered what happened to her. Greene began her career in architecture in the late 1930s working for the Chicago Housing Authority, and later moved to New York City, where she worked for notable architecture firms, including Marcel Breuers. On December 28, 1942, at the age of twenty-seven, Greene was registered in the State of Illinois as an architect. the legacy she built was reflected in her funeral service. Retrieved September 12, 2018, from, https://arch.illinois.edu/welcome/history-school. In an Instagram post, Richards posted a series of snapshots throughout the decades posing alongside her longtime friend. Wilson, D.S. Beverly Lorraine Greene (October 4, 1915 - August 22, 1957), was an American architect. Also, Greene was drawn back to the realm of education, helping Edward Durell Stone work on a theater at the University of Arkansas in 1951 and the arts complex at Sarah Lawrence College (1952). Despite her education and her official recognition as an architect, Greene found it difficult to obtain jobs in the profession. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and was the only child of James and Vera Greene. The 1940 census lists her occupation as supervisor at a technical center, a role that may have been connected with the CHA project.1414This center may have been related to her work for the Wells housing project. In the 1930 census, they were reclassified as Negro.. Also, Greene was drawn back to the realm of education, helping. Sheets from these two projects provide samples of her drafting skills, while a letter she wrote in response to an owners question mentions a revised drawing and bulletin and explains Breuers opinion on how a structural pre-bid question should be handled. Kevin Greene, one of the greatest players on the Carolina Panthers' early teams of the 1990s, died Monday. The names of other projects were mentioned in published obituaries. Beverly Lorraine Greene (4 Oct 1915 22 August 1957) was a groundbreaking urban planner and architect with a unique and distinguished path in education and practice. His family says they were told he died in a car wreck. Wells housing project. In our online shop you can buy back issues as well as our other publications and some other of Modernist goodies.. have a look. Cloud, Fla., 1924, demolished 1966, Verna Cook Salomonsky, Ideal House for House and Garden magazine, July 1935, Week-end House for Colonel and Mrs. Julius Wadsworth, Fairfax, Va., 1952, Denver National Bank Building, Denver, 1981, Foot Bridge in Bowring Park, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, 1959, San Francisco Ballet Building, Main Entrance on Franklin Street at Fulton Street, San Francisco, 1983. Beverly Lorraine Greene General Information Occupation: Architect Date of Birth: October 04, 1915 Date of Death: August 22, 1957 Birth City: Chicago Birth State/Province: Illinois Birth Country: United States Resident City: New York City Resident State/Province: New York Resident Country: United States According to architectural editor Dreck Spurlock Wilson, she was "believed to have been the first African-American female licensed as an architect in the United States. in city planning there a year later. The family was part of the Great Migration that transformed Chicago starting in 1900; by 1920 more than 85 percent of the black population in Chicago lived within a chain of neighborhoods located on the South Side and known as the Black Belt and Bronzeville. Greene and her parents were listed as mulatto in the 1920 census, at a time when a particular ancestral lineage and difference in skin color warranted a special label. Conrad Johnson (licensed in New York State in 1948) and Percy Ifill, Johnsons future business partner (licensed in 1950) were both to become good friends with Greene. Yearbook photograph of Beverly Greene with other members of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus, 1936. Photo of Anna Carmen Baird Walsh in A Composite Woman, American Lumberman, November 27, 1920- Courtesy of Julia Bachrach Consulting, Katherine Brewster with her children Sara and Edward- Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, Pao-Chi Chang- Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. Birth/Death: (1915-1957) Gender: woman Occupation: American architect Location (state): IL . Beverly Loraine Greene. University of Illinois Archives. Greene never saw most of the buildings at NYU she helped design. Taylor, in addition to being an architect, was an insurance businessman and one of the founders of the Illinois Federal Savings and Loan Association, one of two institutions that provided mortgages to black homeowners on Chicagos South Side. An only child born on October 4th, 1915 in Chicago, IL, Greene was raised by her father, James A. Greene, who was a lawyer, and her stay at home mother, Vera Greene. Beverly Lorraine Greene - Pioneering Women of American Architecture, Celebrating Black History Month African Americans in Construction - Cocoon, Beverly Lorraine Greene - Wikipedia entry. Having a masters degree in planning and housing helped her obtain the job, as did having influential friends. woman, architect | 1.3K views, 87 likes, 34 loves, 6 comments, 22 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from BET: Beverly Lorraine Greene was the first Black woman to graduate from University of Illinois at. The following June she completed her masters degree in architecture and was recognized for the achievement by the National Council of Negro Women.1919The Pittsburgh Courier, April 6, 1946, 8 and Women in 45 Made Strides, Aided Return to Peace, New York Amsterdam News, December 29, 1945. He was 58. During this period, she chaired the planning committee for the Deltas 1940 Annual Jabberwock and a May 1944 three-day Mid-Western Delta Conference. After graduation she started working at the Chicago Housing Department, but her new job was interrupted when she was offered a scholarship to study her MSc in Architecture at Colombia University in New York. work on a theater at the University of Arkansas in 1951 and the arts complex at Sarah Lawrence College (1952). Greenes civic commitments expanded after she finished her masters degree in 1937. (n.d.). Her career was undoubtedly cut short; we cannot help but wonder what Greene might have gone on to achieve given the numerous barriers she had already broken as an African-American woman. Greene collaborated with an architectural firm headed by, that specialized primarily in healthcare and hospital design. University of Illinois Archives. Although Beverly Loraine Greene did not get to see her last project come to fruition, the legacy she built was reflected in her funeral service. The objective of the organization was to seek full and equal opportunities in the field of architecture for African Americans and other minorities, and the membership included both black and white architects. U.S. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. African-American Architects: a Biographical Dictionary, Beverly Lorraine Greene was born on October 4, 1915, to attorney James A. Greene and his wife Vera of Chicago, Illinois. All Rights Reserved. Firms & Partnerships: Chief Land Planner for the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), late 1940s-early 1950s. He was 72. The only gallery in Manchester dedicated to architecture and design with regular exhibitions and modernist shop. In April 1944, she was part of the cast in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience presented at the Play-Arts Guild in Chicago. Woman Architects Services at Unity, the obituary for Greene in the, Greenes name appears on two projects in the online archives for the, IAWA Biographical Database, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, Syracuse University Library, Ida B. Retrieved from http://www.blackpast.org/aah/greene-beverly-loraine-1915-1957, Illinois Architecture College of Fine and Applied Arts. Professional Organizations & Activities: Chair of the Womens Architectural Club; Officer for the Society of Western Engineers; Licensed Architect with the State of Illinois, 1941; Licensed Engineer with the State of Illinois, 1943. Greene earned a Bachelor of Science in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois in 1936. Greene went on to work for a number of notable architectural firms on memorable projects, includingthe arts complex at Sarah Lawrence College andthe UNESCO United Nations headquarters in Paris, France. Licensed in Illinois December 28, 1942. She also emphasized the opportunities for black women in architecture. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. The Sweet Corn Society b. The current home of the School of Architecture. She completed a master's degree in urban planning there in 1945. A memorial service held at Unity Funeral Home was attended by friends including singer Lena Horne, Hornes husband Lennie Heyton, and musician Billy Strayhorn. Beverly Lorraine Greene is believed to have been the first African American woman licensed to practice architecture in the United States. Beverly Loraine Greene (1915 - 1957), American architect; Charles Loraine Smith (1751 - 1835), English sportsman, artist and politician; Duke founded the National Technical Association (NTA) composed of black architects, engineers and scientists. Date of Death / Location: 2017 (Rockford, IL), Education: Bachelor's of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1979, Professional Organizations & Activities: American Institute of Architects (AIA); Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA), Date of Birth / Location: 1901 / Girard, Illinois, Date of Death / Location: December 19, 1988 / Springfield, Illinois. Throughout her life, Greene was committed to advancing professional opportunities for others and understood herself to be a trailblazer. One year later she earned a Masters of Science in city planning and housing from the same university. Courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives. Beverly Loraine Green was born in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois to parents James and Vera Greene. 3 min read. I wish that young women would think about this field, Greene remarked in a 1945 interview. Given her past experiences, and the companys prior announcement that African Americans would not be allowed to live in Stuyvesant Town, Greene believed she would not be hired. Preliminary plans and elevations, drawn by Beverly Greene, for a proposed addition to the Rockefeller (Winthrope) House, August 1952. Record Series41/8/805, Volume 43 (1936), p. 73. Greene never let the societal pressures of her time slow her down, and during her career she worked with a number of notable names in the architecture world. Although the company announced that African Americans would not be allowed to live in Stuyvesant Town, Greene took a chance and applied for the project. Can you guess which of these clubs she spent her free time in, a. She was the first African-American woman to earn her degree in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois. (1935). Wells housing project. Greene persevered and stayed true to her passions of architecture and learning, despite the racism she had to face, creating a lasting legacy in her too short career. Beverly Lorraine Greene (4 Oct 1915 - 22 August 1957) was a groundbreaking urban planner and architect with a unique and distinguished path in education and practice. in City Planning, 1937, Columbia University, New York City, M.S. Look what I just found: Beverly Lorraine Greene, created a day after this nomination. In June 1939, Greene spoke about the new housing project at a careers luncheon for black women, attended by some one hundred interested women. She grew up in Chicago and was raised by her father, James A. Greene, a lawyer, and her mother, Vera Greene, a homemaker. Education: Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan (undergraduate); University of Minnesota (graduate), Professional Organizations & Activities: American Institute of Architects (AIA), Firms & Partnerships: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Alfred Swenson Pao-Chi Chang Architects, Professional Organizations & Activities: Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Professor; One of the founders of Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA). Good to go. During her time with the architectural firm headed by Marcel Breuer she worked on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris, France, which was completed in 1958. [Beverly Lorraine Greene], letter to J. Retrieved September 12, 2018, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Loraine_Greene(Photo of UNESCO Building), Greene, Beverly Loraine (1915-1957) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. Her graduation date and the degree she received were confirmed by the Registrars Office in an e-mail to author, April 18, 2003. in city planning there a year later. [1] She was also involved in the drama club Cenacle and was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Shortly after arriving in New York, Greene visited the Columbia University campus to ask about night classes in architecture, and after presenting her credentials she was admitted with a scholarship.1717The Columbia University Archives confirmed that the 194445 Student Directory included Beverly Lorraine Greene as a student enrolled in the School of Architecture at Columbia University. In response to a question about how many women were in his class, he responded: Very few. The American Red Cross c. Future Educators of America d. A drama club called, Greene never let the societal pressures of her time slow her down, and during her career she worked with a number of notable names in the architecture world. Co-sponsored by the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA NYC) and the Architectural League, the exhibit of CANA members work was seen at St. Philips Church and the Countee Cullen Library in Harlem and before traveling to Hampton University in Virginia where it was to be displayed for an educators conference.2828In a letter published in Ebony Magazine (March 1957, 12), Isaiah Ehrlich, a CANA member, gives the names of other black women architects who participated at this exhibition.