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[LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND] for real
2005.02.07 12:04
February 2005
Out of the Shadows
After decades of obscurity, African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America's most prestigious buildings
In 1986, Duke University students protesting the school's investments in apartheid South Africa erected shanties in front of the university chapel, a soaring spire of volcanic stone modeled after England's Canterbury Cathedral. The protest prompted one student to complain to the school newspaper. The shacks, she wrote, violate "our rights as students to a beautiful campus."
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