James Silcott made history as the first Black project architect for Los Angeles County and UCLA.

He won a roughly $1 million settlement from the county in 1984 after alleging workplace discrimination.

Throughout his life, he donated $3 million to Howard University, his alma mater, to support young architects.

He will be interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery on Sept. 6.

James E. Silcott, a trailblazing Los Angeles architect who, thanks to many gifts to his alma mater, Howard University, became the most generous benefactor to architecture students at historically Black colleges in the U.S., died July 17 in Washington, D.C. He was 95.

Silcott’s memorial service took place on Saturday at Howard; he will be laid to rest in L.A.’s Inglewood Park Cemetery on Sept. 6.

Silcott, who started in L

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