Clarkson were not deterred from supporting their son even when a high school teacher rebuked Williams’ desire to become an architect. Considering this sad beginning, it is heartening that he eventually found a foster family that supported his educational interests. Paul and his brother were sent to different foster homes. By his fourth birthday, both of his parents had succumbed to tuberculosis his father died when the young Williams was only two years old. New York: Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc., 2010. See Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of American’s Great Migration. The official Great Migration of Blacks fleeing the South began in 1917 and can be documented to the 1970s. ![]() He designed Carver Park while Victory Village, the housing for White workers was also being constructed. Williams to the Las Vegas area for the first time. Housing for the portion of workers who were Black, brought Paul R. This plant and federal housing for workers started Basic Township that is now the City of Henderson. ![]() The theory behind this technology was already being used in Germany so the U.S. The federal government commissioned BMI to process the ore that would be used to build this war equipment. Magnesium caused bullets to shoot straighter, planes to fly faster, and bombs to be more destructive. These investments encouraged the manufacture of implements of war that would be lighter and more precise. The federal government had poured funding into the town in the 1930s to build Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) constructed the first federal building that housed a post office on the first level and courthouse on the second floor and in the 1940s, made capital investments for the war effort. This was also the city-building era of Las Vegas, a twentieth-century town founded in 1905. The two adjacent neighborhoods were intentionally divided by what is today, Lake Mead Boulevard. At the same time, a separate housing development-Victory Village-was designed and constructed by a different architect and developer for white workers. Williams designed the Carver Park Housing development to help house the Black employees of Basic Magnesium Incorporated (BMI), a plant established to process manganese ore to make bullets, planes, and guns during World War II. Williams to southern Nevada for the first time in 1942. The need to house Black workers is what brought Paul R. ![]() That migration slowed after a while but never ended. The 1940s mark the beginning of the “Great Migration” of Blacks to Las Vegas that brought numerous men and their families to the region as a result of a growing casino and gambling industry. He did this while encountering profound racism, which was not unique to Las Vegas during this era, but that permeated the entire country. Williams (1894-1980) added architectural beauty and elegance to what was then the geographically barren landscape of Las Vegas. From the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Paul R.
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