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- Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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- Date
- 1910
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- Creator
- ["Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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Richard R. Wright
Savannah, Ga.
Mr. Wright is president of the Georgia State College, presi¬
dent of the Georgia Colored Fair Association, president of the
Georgia Agricultural and Industrial Association, and president
of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools.
When Gen. O. O. Howard ad¬
dressed 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
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close of the war, and w as a slave of
slave parents. He worked by day and studied by night until
he entered Atlanta University, graduating with the first col¬
legiate 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 be¬
came the Howard Normal School; in 1880, he organized the
first colored public high school in Georgia, at Augusta, and
since 1891 has been president of the Georgia State Industrial
College . He w as 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 w'as editor of a newspaper, first the
Journal of Progress , Cuthbert, Ga., later the Augusta Sentinel.
He was a delegate to four national Republican conventions.
He declined the position of minister to Liberia. During the
Spanish-American War he was appointed by President
McKinley paymaster of the United States volunteers, with rank
of major. He organized the Colored Farmers Conference in
1898, and has organized three state fairs. He is now endeavor¬
ing to organize an exposition to show the progress of the Negio
race in 1913, the semi-centennial of the American Negro s
emancipation.
Richard R. Wright, Jr., Ph.D., A.M.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. Wright is editor of the Christian Recorder , Philadelphia,
a sociologist, and a representative of the younger generation of
Negroes who are of educated parents, and who have not known
slavery.
He was born in Cuthbert, Ga., April
16, 1878. He was educated in the
public schools of Augusta, 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 Uni¬
versity of Pennsylvania which w ill con¬
fer upon him Ph.D. at its next com¬
mencement; the Universities of Berlin
and Leipzig, Germany. He taught
school in Georgia public schools, and
was two years instructor in Hebrew in
Wilberforce University, Ohio. He is editor of the organ of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest and largest
religious periodical among the Negroes, and manager of the
African Methodist Episcopal Book Concern.
He is interested in sociological study and experiment. He
held the research fellowship in sociology for the University of
Pennsylvania. He is secretary of the People’s Savings Bank of
Philadelphia, and is connected with various other associations
for the uplift of his people. He has done sociological research
for the United States Bureau of Labor, the Carnegie Institution,
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 gospels; “ The Negroes of Xenia,
Ohio; a Social Study,” written for the United States Ballet in of
Labor; “ The Negroes of Philadelphia,” written for the Phila¬
delphia Ledger; “ Self-Help in Negro Education,” written for
the Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Negro;
“ The Economic Condition of the Negro in the North,” w ritten
for the Southern Workman; “ The Negro and the Newspapers,”
leaflet of the Star Center; “ The Negro Problem; What It Is,
and What It Is Not,” in African Methodist Episcopal Review.
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