This is the magazine for the National Association of Minority Architects.
In 1968, activist and executive director of the National Urban League,
Whitney Young was invited to address the AIA National Convention in
Portland where he addressed the institute's silent stance on the turmoil
in the country and urged them to stand up and endorse the efforts of
John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in their actions. This speech
encouraged the mostly white profession to work towards the advancement
of minority architects, whom they had mostly ignored. At the time,
minority architects made up of 0.05% of AIA's 20,000 members. At the
1971 AIA National Convention in Detroit, 12 black architects began to
organize to create NOMA. The first president was founder Wendell
Campbell in 1971.
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