"It seems you re not tired yet"
"Wait the original plans for capitol city became the plan for Washington.A black architect Pierre Charles L' Enfant gets credit for designing plans for Washington D.C.He had assistant like Benjamin Banneker.a self taught mathematician served as official assistant surveyor ."
"That was the first major city you mentioned.Am impressed.Any more city."
"Take for instance St.Paul,Minnesota was designed and built by black architect with no university education or certification .Yet only few folks in St.Paul have ever heard of late Clarence Wesley Wigington.He made history as the black municipal architect in the country when he secured and earned the highest score in his group in the qualifying exam for senior draftsman position "
"Jesus I Ve not heard this phenomenon before Wigington Clarence.Impressive.Two cities and counting."
"16th Street Baptist Church founded in 1873 as the first coloured Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.Wallace Rayfield black architect constructed the magnificent edifice. The four black girls murdered by bomb detonated by members of kluklux klan in ,1963 happened in the building.16th Street was a popular meeting place for civil right movement of the 60s."
"I know you 16th street my sister grew up in the vicinity."
"The railroad stations the railroad system much of it was built by black slaves.This development of railroad transcontinental system in the early 19th century was designed to move products and market cheaply across the world.Credit goes to them because they were used to build much of this system."
"Railroad I heard it for the first time."
"Duke University .At the University of the Pennsylvania 's department of architecture the first black graduate of the university Julian Abele was a phenomenon by all ramifications.He designed West Campus of Duke University ,Harvard University's Widener Memorial Library, Philadelphia central library and Philadelphia museum of art.Let me add more tips,do you know Harvard law school under construction and control by Isaac Royall jr was constructed by over 65 slaves owned by his father?They owned the largest population of slaves In Massachusetts."
"Continue "
"Do you they through their slave labor they financed and built major cities in America?"
"Proof it.You only mentioned two cities so far Washington D.C. and St. Paul, Minnesota."
"Now listen,take aerial view of Georgia, Atlanta you LL be more impressed."
"Georgia Atlanta?"
"Do you know between 1500 and 1800 about 40 to 50 Maritime cities and towns were constructed ?
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