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R. R. Wrigbt, Jr.
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Richard R. Wright
.savannah, Ga.
MR. WRIGHT is president of the Georgia State College, president
of the Georgia Colored Fair Association, president of the
Georgia Agricultural and Industrial Association, and pre ident
of the National Association of Teachers in Colored School .
When Gen. O. O. Howard addressed
the colored people of Atlanta,
Ga., on one occasion, at the conclusion
of his address he asked, "What
message shall I take back to the people
in the North with me for you?" a
little black boy arose in his place and
sang out in a clear and determined
voice, "Tell them, sir, we are rising."
This boy was Richard Robert Wright,
and his answer was prophetic for his
race and for himself.
He was born ten years before the
R. R. Wrigbt dose of the war, and wa a slave of
slave parents. He worked by day and studied by night until
he entered Atlanta Universit " graduating with the first collegiate
class, in 1876. He later studied at Harvard, Cornell,
and the University of Chicago, and traveled abroad.
In 1876, he started a school in Cuthbert, Ga., which later became
the Howard Normal School; in 1880, he organized the
first colored public high school in Georgia, at Augusta, and
since 1891 has been pre ident of the Georgia State Indu trial
College. He was president for many years of the Georgia State
Colored Teachers' Association, which he organized in 1879.
He is a trustee of Atlanta University.
For twenty years he was editor of a newspaper, first the
Journal of Progress, Cuthbert, Ga., later the Augusta Sentinel.
He was a delegate to four national Republican convention .
He declined the position of mini tel' to Liberia. During the
Spanish-American War he was appointed by Pre ident
McKinley paymaster of the United States volunteers, with rank
of major. He organized the Colored Farmers' Conference in
1898 and has orcranized three tate fairs. He i now endeavor- , b
ing to organize an e"1>osition to how the progress of the Negro
race in 1913, the semi-centennial of the American Jegro's
emancipation.
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Richard R. Wright, Jr., Ph.D., A.M.
Philadelphia. Pa.
MR. WRIGHT i editor of the Christian Recorder, Philadelphia,
a sociologist, and a repre entative of the younger generation of
Negroes who are of educated parents, and who have not known
slavery.
He was born in uthbert, Ga., April
16, 1878. He was educated in the
public schools of Augu ta, Ga., and at
the Georgia State College, of which
his father is president, and from which
he received the degree of A.B.; the
University of Chicago, from which he
received the A.M. and B.D.; the University
of Penn ylvania which will confer
upon him Ph.D. at its ne:\.1: commencement;
the Universities of Berlin
and Leipzig, Germany. He taught
chool in Georgia public schools, and
was two years instructor in Hebrew in
Wilberforce Univer ity, Ohio. He is editor of the organ of
the Mrican Methodist Episcopal Church, the olde t and largest
religious periodical among the egroes, and manager of the
Mrican Methodist Epi copal Book Concern.
He is intere ted in ociological tudy and experiment. He
held the re earch fellow hip in ociology for the niversity of
Pennsylvania. He i ecretary of the People's aving Bank of
Philadelphia, and i connected with various other as ociation
for the uplift of hi people. He has done sociological re earch
for the United States Bureau of Labor, the Carnegie In. titution,
the University of Chicago, the Pittsburg Survey, the Committee
of Twelve, and other institutions.
Some of his monographs are: "The Teaching of Jesus," a
study in the theology of the go pels; "The cgroes of Xcnia.
Ohio' a Social tudy," written for the United States Bulletin of
Labor; "The Negroes of PhiJadelphia," written for the Philadelphia
Ledger; "Self-Help in ~egro Education." written for
the Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the ~egro;
" The Economic Condition of the Negro in the North," written
for the Southern Workman; "The Negro and the New papers,"
leaflet of the tar enter;" The Kegro Problem; What It Is,
and Wllat It I ~ot," in African MetlwdistEpiscopal Review.
