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MIT’s Joel Dawson — Honors, Family and Music

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Biography: Who Was Robert Robinson Taylor?

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Robert R. Taylor from MIT to Tuskegee:  A Black Architect’s Journey Robert Robinson Taylor (1868-1942), the first academically trained African-American architect, entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1888 and graduated in 1892.  Booker T. Washington, searching for professionally educated faculty …