![]() ![]() ![]() Two and a half decades later, another upheaval-the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles-jolted architect Michael Maltzan, M.Arch. “You are most distinguished by your thunderous silence and your complete irrelevance.” “You are not a profession that has distinguished itself by your social and civic contributions to the cause of civil rights, and I’m sure this has not come to you as any shock,” he observed. But Young, then the president of the National Urban League, offered far more condemnation than comfort. ![]() AIA members wanted to know what had happened, and how they could help. Just two months earlier, riots had devastated dozens of American downtowns in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. In June 1968, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) invited civil-rights leader Whitney Young Jr.
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