{"id":64235,"date":"2023-03-27T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64235"},"modified":"2023-03-27T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:27:37","slug":"georgia-louise-harris-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64235","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Louise Harris Brown (June 12, 1918 \u2013 September 21, 1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org\/georgia-louise-harris-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Georgia Louise Harris Brown (June 12, 1918 \u2013 September 21, 1999)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pioneering Women of American Architecture<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bv.fapesp.br\/en\/pesquisador\/70488\/anat-falbel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anat Falbel<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Campinas, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/robertawashington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Roberta Washington<\/strong><\/a>, Principal<br \/>\n<em>Roberta Washington Architects<\/em>, New York, New York<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org\/georgia-louise-harris-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 67%;\" src=\"https:\/\/pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.-entry-19-louise_harris_brown_photo-960x1237.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_Louise_Harris_Brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Louise Harris Brown<\/a> (1918\u20131999), a pioneering African American architect practicing in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a> from the 1940s to the 1990s, is recognized as the second African American woman licensed as an architect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>.<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0She forged an impressive career in industrial architecture in Brazil, where she may have immigrated in the hope of escaping racial prejudice, though she was rarely credited as the designer in publications about these works. (Generally, it was the engineering firms that received the credit.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorgia Louise Harris Brown was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topeka,_Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topeka, Kansas<\/a>, on June 12, 1918, only six years after the extension of equal voting rights to women in the state.<sup>2<\/sup> Her family\u2019s genealogy of strong women of mixed ancestry included former enslaved African Americans who arrived from the South to the Union\u2019s slavery-free state after 1861, Native Americans, and German settlers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org\/georgia-louise-harris-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Louise Harris Brown (June 12, 1918 \u2013 September 21, 1999) Pioneering Women of American Architecture October 2017 Anat Falbel University of Campinas, Brazil Roberta Washington, Principal Roberta Washington Architects, New York, New York Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918\u20131999), a pioneering African American architect practicing in Chicago and Brazil from the 1940s to the 1990s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,83,21,459,8,20,25],"tags":[33790,3027,33793,5488,33792,33791],"class_list":["post-64235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-anat-falbel","tag-chicago","tag-georgia-louise-harris-brown","tag-illinois","tag-pioneering-women-of-american-architecture","tag-roberta-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64237,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64235\/revisions\/64237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}