Kenneth Roderick O'Neal

Biography

Kenneth Roderick O'Neal (1908–1989), was an American architect, engineer, and painter. He founded the first Black-owned and led architecture firm in downtown Chicago. O'Neal was an artist of the Harlem Renaissance, who later studied under former Bauhaus instructors and colleagues of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and employed early career architects including Beverly Lorraine Greene, John Moutoussamy, and Georgia Louise Harris Brown.

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