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Lester Oliver Bankhead

1912–1997

United States

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Lester Oliver Bankhead (1912–1997), was an American architect, known for his modernist church designs. In the 1950s, he was a pioneering Black architect in Los Angeles, California. His architecture firm went by the names Bankhead's Building Design Services, and later as Lester O. Bankhead Design Group.

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