Richard Robert Wright archives, 1907-1969.

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Richard Robert Wright archives, 1907-1969.

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Box 1- The materials in box one are dated from 1907 to 1939. The documents were retrieved from Wright's scrapbook to include: greeting cards, programs of speaking engagements, invitations, photographs, drawings, and correspondence through telegrams from family and friends. There are news clippings written about the Wilberforce School of Religion and course notes and assignments based on a course in "The Negro in America" taught at Wilberforce University. Box 2- contains receipts, announcements, correspondences, and programs which belonged to Bishop Wright's wife Mrs. Charlotte Crogman Wright. The items reveal her classroom management abilities teaching Latin and Greek at Clark Atlanta University, and her membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The file also reveals that she wrote a book entitled "Beneath a Southern Cross: the story of An American bishop's wife in South Africa." Box 3- contains a bible written in Germany, a catalogue of Wilberforce University for the 1966-1967 academic year, and thirty nine pamphlets of "The Gospel of St. John." Box 4- contains programs, a correspondence from Rev. P. Solomon of Andra Pradesh, India; an edition of World Parish, vol. 3(7) addressed to R.R. Wright; A.M.E. Church Public Relations Bulletin featuring an article introducing Alma A. Polk, the new Public Relations Director; an edition of Worldview: a journal of religion and international affairs, vol. 7(9) featuring an article on apartheid in South Africa; and R.R. Wright's account book dating from January to April of 1956.

4 boxes.

Temple University, Blockson Afro-American History Collection

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Wright, Richard R. (Richard Robert), 1878-

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Bishop Richard Robert Wright, the 57th bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was born on April 16, 1878 in Cuthbert, Georgia. He received degrees and/or studied at the following institutions: Georgia State University, A.B., 1898; University of Chicago, B.D., 1901 and A.M., 1904; University of Berlin, Germany, 1903; University of Leipzig, 1904 and University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1911. He served as editor of the Christian Recorder, business manager of the A.M.E. Book Concern, presid...

Wright, Charlotte Crogman.

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African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

Polk, Alma A.

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Percetti, E. M.

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Solomon, Petre

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