Robert Charles Bates

Biography

Robert Charles Bates (January 27, 1869 – May 2, 1950), commonly known as R. Charles Bates, was an American architect, educator, and textbook author. He was an African-American architect and helped design and build many of the Claflin University campus buildings, a historically black university (HBU) in South Carolina. He is thought to the first Black teacher of architecture at a HBU; and the first African- American author of an architecture textbook.

Explore Wikipedia contributors ↗