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an agreement among the participants to cooperate and contribute to a single comprehensive history, "The African American Architect, 1892-1992:A Centennial Review" 
(Enclosure 9, draft outline). The second will occur on February 13-15, 1992 and will revisit the position of African American women in architectural practice and education. 

CONVENTION STRATEGY 

As mentioned in the Proposal Summary, the CONGRESS will take the "high road" in pursuing the development of a Manifesto. Contributing to the scholarly expectations of the discourse will be a call for papers that will be issued in mid-February 1992 and the organization of Task Groups. The attendance will come from all sectors and levels of the profession and will include official delegates from the organizations cited in the Proposal Summary, the schools of architecture (student and faculty) and other allied constituencies. Overall leadership and support for the CONGRESS have come from senior practitioners and educators who are interested in securing the next generations of African American architects through carefully conceived and executed intervention strategies. The organizing committee that will be co-chaired by Robert P. Madison FAIA, Cleveland, Ohio and John Henri Spencer FAIA, Hampton, Virginia. Mr. Madison is a senior practioner from Cleveland, Ohio and Professor Spencer is a senior educator and who chairs the Department of Architecture at Hampton University. Both men have held multiple leadership positions in national architectural organizations They will be joined by Dean Harry G. Robinson III, FAIA. Total attendance is anticipated to exceed 800 participants. 

The National Organization of Architects, NOMA, is incorporating its 22nd annual meeting in the proceedings of the Convention and is a co-sponsor. 

Individual Task Groups are being formed and will focus on topics such as the following: 

- Access to and retention in professional degree programs