Giving Our A&d Community Some Shine

Melvin Mitchell He was born in New Orleans, La. and educated in the public schools of the Watts section of South Central Los Angeles. Melvin entered Howard University in 1962. Upon graduation in 1967, Melvin worked as a community planner in the "War on Poverty" program during the era of black consciousness and urban rebellions in DC. In 1969, he entered the Master of Architecture program at Harvard and returned to DC in 1970 as an assistant professor at Howard. He became the head of the fledgling architecture school at Morgan State University in Baltimore in 1997.