Cap Wigington
Cap Wigington

Author: David Vassar Taylor

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780873514156

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Clarence W (Cap) Wigington was a man of firsts -- the first registered African American architect in Minnesota and the first African American municipal architect in the nation. The public buildings that he designed for the city of St Paul are a continuing legacy, helping to define the city's character. And his achievements, both as an architect and as a leader in the state's African American community, are all the more significant given the limitations of the times in which he lived. Wigington's most ephemeral work may have been his most creative. From 1937 to 1947, he designed six ice palaces and a number of secondary structures for St Paul's famous Winter Carnival. These stunningly fanciful designs are Wigington's most imaginative and exuberant. Alternating chapters by Taylor and Larson examine the man, his times, his leadership in the African American community, and his architectural work. Richly illustrated with photos of Wigington's buildings and his drawings, the book also contains a list of works attributed to Wigington. His life story shows the struggles and the achievements of a talented individual facing and conquering long odds.

African Americans in Minnesota
African Americans in Minnesota

Author: David Vassar Taylor

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2009-06-26

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0873516532

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A chronicle of the rich history of Blacks in the state through careful analysis of census and housing records, newspaper records, and first-person accounts.

Diversity among Architects
Diversity among Architects

Author: Craig Wilkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1317479270

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Diversity among Architects presents a series of essays questioning the homogeneity of architecture practitioners, who remain overwhelmingly male and Caucasian, to help you create a field more representative of the population you serve. The book is the collected work of author Craig L. Wilkins, an African American scholar and practitioner, and discusses music, education, urban geography, social justice, community design centers, race-space identity, shared landscape, and many more topics.

Into the Bright Sunshine
Into the Bright Sunshine

Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-06-08

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 0197535194

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"Hubert Humphrey, a fallen hero and a dying man, rose on rickety legs to approach the podium of the Philadelphia Convention Hall, his pulpit for the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. He clutched a sheaf of paper with his speech for the occasion, typed and double-spaced by an assistant from his extemporaneous dictation, and then marked up in pencil by Humphrey himself. A note on the first page, circled to draw particular attention, read simply, "30 years ago - Here." In this place, at that time, twenty-nine years earlier to be precise, he had made history. From the dais now, Humphrey beheld five thousand impending graduates, an ebony sea of gowns and mortarboards, broken by one iconoclast in a homemade crown, two in ribboned bonnets, and another whose headgear bore the masking-tape message HI MA PA. In the horseshoe curve of the arena's double balcony loomed eight thousand parents and siblings, children, and friends. Wearing shirtsleeves and cotton shifts amid the stale heat, they looked like pale confetti from where Humphrey stood, and their flash cameras flickered away, a constellation of pinpricks"--

The Secret Origins of Black Americans : Preserving History, Ethnicity, and Culture in the Face of an Ethnocide by Eurocentrists and Afrocentrists
The Secret Origins of Black Americans : Preserving History, Ethnicity, and Culture in the Face of an Ethnocide by Eurocentrists and Afrocentrists

Author: WKS. Ph.D.

Publisher:

Published: 2023-05-20

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Do you belong to a legendary lineage? In less than 100 pages, the Secret Origins of Black Americans exposes a global phenomenon. Black American history cover-ups, pseudo-origin stories, and diaspora wars over music genres and Jollof rice are ended. 1. Black Americans have been a global obsession for centuries. 2. Black Americans were instrumental in winning the Civil War, stabilizing the country, and moving the country westward. The Statue of Liberty celebrates the Civil War victory and the Emancipation Proclamation, not immigration. 3. Black Americans built the foundational cities in the United States of America with architects and craftsmen, not simple laborers. 4. Jim Crow laws punished Black Americans and exempted foreigners of African descent. 5. New technology and global DNA research shows Black Americans are not Africans in America or a boat stop away from being Caribbean. The “Indian” DNA carried by Black Americans is not only Native American but Austronesian. The book explores the word "black" as an ethnic descriptor. 6. Black American culture is imitated in every country on earth, including isolated Inuit villages. 7. Black Americans broke barriers in over fifty sports and competitions, leading other groups. 8. Black Americans have been targeted by propaganda campaigns for centuries by Europeans and foreigners disguised as Black Americans. 9. Soul food is a Black American cuisine developed in the United States of America, not brought from Africa. 10. Black Americans created every relevant music genre in the United States of America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Rock solid recording dates show the architects of each music genre. 11. Patented innovations and inventions by Black Americans modernized the world. The greatest civil rights activist for Asians in America was Frederick Douglass. Humanitarianism by Black Americans has helped Asians, Oceanians, Holocaust survivors, Latin Americans, Caribbeans, Africans, and more. 12. Since the 1800s, Eurocentrists, Afrocentrists, and pan-Africanists, notably Marcus Garvey, conspired to erase history leaving Black Americans stateless. Includes a step-by-step genealogy guide with links. Contact [email protected] with comments or download issues.

Creating Minnesota
Creating Minnesota

Author: Annette Atkins

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2009-11-16

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0873516648

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Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.

AIA Guide to Downtown St. Paul
AIA Guide to Downtown St. Paul

Author: Larry Millett

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780873517218

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Let architecture critic Larry Millett be your guide to downtown St. Paul, whose architectural history displays the uniqueness of this far-from-identical "twin" city. AIA Guide to Downtown St. Paul offers up the central core, Rice Park, Lowertown, and capitol districts. Each tour is copiously illustrated with current and historic photographs and paired with detailed maps. This deeply informative guidebook is perfect for tourists discovering the Twin Cities and residents exploring what is right next door. Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture, notably in AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Lost Twin Cities.

Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee

Author: Ellen Weiss

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1588382486

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"Ellen Weiss breaks important new ground in her remarkable monograph on Robert R. Taylor. This volume is by far the most detailed account we have of an African American architect. Weiss vividly conveys the immense challenges faced by black architects and professionals of every kind, especially during the rise of Jim Crow. Along the way we get myriad insights on architectural education, architect-client relationships, and the development of a major institution of higher learning."--- Richard Longstreth, George Washington University "Architectural historian Ellen Weiss's book provides a wealth of little-known factual information about Taylor and a scholarly historical analysis of his many contributions in architectural education and professional practice. A must-read for anyone with an interest in architecture and a certain reference for every architecture student."--- Richard Dozier, Dean, Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture & Construction Science, Tuskegee University "Robert R. Taylor's place in history as the first academically-trained African American architect has been well known, but an authoritative assessment of his contribution to American architectural and planning practice has remained elusive until now. Weiss deftly interweaves the story of the Tuskegee campus with an examination of Taylor's pedagogy and the plight of black architects in the early twentieth century."--- Gary Van Zante, Curator of Architecture and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Africana
Africana

Author: Anthony Appiah

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 3951

ISBN-13: 0195170555

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Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.

AIA Guide to the Twin Cities
AIA Guide to the Twin Cities

Author: Larry Millett

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 9780873515405

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Get ready to discover the great architectural mecca that is Minneapolis and St. Paul. The first comprehensive, illustrated handbook of its kind, AIA Guide to the Twin Cities is the ultimate source to the architectural riches of the metropolitan area. Organized by neighborhood and featuring a wealth of sites--from the highest point on the Minneapolis skyline to the modest St. Paul bungalow vibrant with historical and architectural significance--this invaluable reference has it all: -Illuminating entries for more than 3,000 buildings -Behind-the-scenes details of the structures and their architects -Lively information about local history and regional styles -Highlights of important buildings nearly lost in time -Sixty easy-to-read maps that pinpoint the location of every structure -Dozens of planned walking and driving tours -Over 1,000 photos that illustrate significant buildings and features Retired Pioneer Press architecture critic Larry Millett has spent more than two decades researching and exploring the architectural heritage of the Twin Cities. Millett's AIA Guide to the Twin Cities is your ticket to the best tour in town. Sponsored in part by the American Institute of Architects Minnesota. Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture. His books include Lost Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Strange Days, Dangerous Nights (all MHS Press), as well as a series of mystery novels featuring Sherlock Holmes.