Architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the father of architect and Chicago, Illinois, business leader Robert Rochon Taylor and the great-grandfather of Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama. … Read MoreRobert Robinson Taylor (1868-1942)
Architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the father of architect and Chicago, Illinois, business leader Robert Rochon Taylor and the great-grandfather of Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama. … Read MoreRobert Robinson Taylor (1868-1942)
Robert Robinson Taylor (1868-1942) had a prolific and wide-ranging career. He was the nation's first academically trained African American architect as well as the first black graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For 40 years, Taylor assisted Tuskegee Institute (present-day Tuskegee University) principals Booker T. Washington and Robert R. Moton in developing and managing […]
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Architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the father of architect and Chicago, Illinois, business leader Robert Rochon Taylor and the great-grandfather of Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama. … Read MoreRobert Robinson Taylor (1868-1942)
Architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the father of architect and Chicago, Illinois, business leader Robert Rochon Taylor and the great-grandfather of Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama. … Read MoreRobert Robinson Taylor (1868-1942)