ABSTRACT
William Sidney Pittman was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 21, 1875, and was educated in the segregated public schools of Montgomery. In 1892, at age seventeen, he enrolled at TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. He completed his studies in mechanical and architectural drawing in 1897. With financial support from Tuskegee Institute’s principal, Booker Taliferro Washington, Pittman continued his education at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, and earned a diploma in architectural drawing in 1900. Returning to Tuskegee Institute as assistant in the Division of Architectural and Mechanical Drawing, he supplied blueprints for several buildings on the Tuskegee campus.1
