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Architecture, Equity, and Activism 1968

Architects in the time are not acknowledged the underrepresented communities of society. Not only are there few that pursue the profession, but the profession isn’t building and working to develop the places that do not have not done anything in terms pf civic and social duties in response to the injustices. 

This same year Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after Whitney M. Young Jr. gave a speech to the AIA. 

“You are not a profession that has distinguished itself by your social and civic contributions to the cause of civil rights, and I am sure this has not come to you as any shock,”

- Whitney M. Young Jr. 1968

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