Papers, 1879, 1898, 1909-1997.

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Papers, 1879, 1898, 1909-1997.

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The collection chronicles Wright's early life; student years at Clark University and Harvard Medical School; internship and later career at the Harlem Hospital; political involvement in the NAACP and other groups and anti-segregationist beliefs; activities in various professional societies; and his medical practice in New York City. The bulk of the material consists of clippings, mostly from black N.Y. newspapers, about blacks in medicine, blacks as professionals, and health care for blacks. Also contains Wright's personal and professional correspondence as well as a limited amount of his wife, Corinne Cooke Wright's correspondence; reprints of writings; and pamphlets, some containing brief histories of black medical societies, concerning political issues. The collection also includes several photographs of Wright, his family, and his attendance at professional events and civic activities.

24 boxes.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Wright, Louis T. (Louis Tompkins), 1891-1952

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Louis Tompkins Wright (1891-1952), son and stepson of physicians, and father to two daughter-physicians, graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1915. He interned at the Freedman's Hospital, affiliated with Howard Medical School, in Washington, D.C., and then went into practice with his stepfather, Dr. William Fletcher Penn, in Atlanta for a year before joining the Army Medical Corps in 1917. During World War I, he saw service in France and sustained permanent damage to his lungs resultin...

Harvard Medical School.

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Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.)

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