Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Norma Merrick Sklarek
Born: April 15, 1926
Died: February 6, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Norma Merrick Sklarek was a pioneering African-American architect. Sklarek was the third black woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States after Georgia Louise Harris Brown and Beverly Loraine Greene.