{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"How Ohio's first black architect's career rose above racist roadblocks","publication_date":"June 13, 2019","summary":"Robert Madison got his marching orders when he was 6 -- his mother told him he should become an architect, and three decades later, he became the first African American architect in Ohio. But that achievement came after a hard-fought battle against cultural forces working to keep people of color out of the profession.","author_name":"By David C. Barnett, WVIZ\/ideastream","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2019\/06\/Robert-Julian-and-Bernard-Madison-with-childhood-friend-Jesse-Strickland-at-Medical-Associates-Building-site-1960..jpg-1024x664.jpg","thumbnail_height":664,"thumbnail_width":1024}