“Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington” Author Talk

Robert R. Taylor, the first trained African American architect, spent summers on the Vineyard during the 1880’s. While away from the Island, Taylor designed the campus of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute.

With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, author Ellen Weiss shows how a black youth born in North Carolina earned a professional architecture degree at MIT and used his skills to further Washington's agenda of solidarity, racial pride, and progress.

$8 for Museum members/$12 for non-Members.

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