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Black architects helped to shape modernism as we know it today, and their creative contributions have been undervalued for too long. Getty is giving $3.1 million to National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to preserve historic modernist architecture by Black architects and designers. #TellTheFullStory Read more at the link in our bio! Images: 1. Amaza Lee Meredith at work in 1958 on plans for an addition to the Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia. Photo: Virginia State University Special Collections and Archives 2. Azurest South, 1939, Amaza Lee Meredith. Virginia State University, Ettrick, Virginia. Photo: Brian D. Goldstein, 2021, CC BY-NC 4.0 3. Portrait of Paul R. Williams, 1952, Julius Shulman. Gelatin silver print. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)

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