‘Cap” Wigington and the Towering Achievements of America’s first Black Municipal Architect.
Clarence Wigington’s early years and training. The 1910 census records only 59 black architects, artists, and draftsmen in the United States. Clarence Wesley Wigington was born in 1883 into this culture of segregation, oppression, and limits for African Americans. He never got formal training or a degree, or a certification in architecture, but his skills…