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'''McKissack & McKissack''' is an American [[architecture]], [[engineering]], program management and [[construction]] firm based in [[Washington, D.C.]] It is the oldest minority-owned architecture and construction company in the United States.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
The firm was founded in 1905 in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] by Moses McKissack, the grandson of a slave who had been brought to the United States from west Africa and put to work making bricks. Moses III, the slave's grandson, became an accomplished carpenter and eventually teamed with his brother Calvin McKissack to found the company.<ref>{{Cite web|title=From Slave Labor to Thriving Business › Family Business Magazine|url=https://www.familybusinessmagazine.com/slave-labor-thriving-business-storied-history-mckissack-mckissack|access-date=2021-02-23|website=www.familybusinessmagazine.com}}</ref><ref name="MMBTR" /><ref name="ATTcalendar">{{cite web |url=http://tnafricanamericanhistory.com/wp/july/ |title=McKissack & McKissack |work=AT&T Tennessee African-American History Calendar |publisher=[[AT&T]] |date=July 2013 |accessdate=January 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105043938/http://tnafricanamericanhistory.com/wp/july/ |archivedate=January 5, 2014 }}</ref>
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