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Celebrating African American History Month with Role Models in Science & Engineering Achievement: Archibald A. Alexander

carlyo | February 12, 2014

Archibald A. Alexander – Noted Design and Construction Engineer Best known for designing Washington, DC's Tidal Basin Bridge and Whitehurst Freeway; first black graduate of the University of Iowa's College of Engineering; served as territorial governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands Growing up in Iowa during the late 1880s, Archibald "Archie" Alexander remembers being warned that engineering was not something he could expect to succeed in as a black man. But he pushed forward anyway, later graduating in 1912 with a bachelor's degree in engineering from the State University of Iowa (now the…

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