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Title: Warner Wright, patriarch of the Wright family
Contributor: Joseph, Andrée M
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890/1899
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
USC Libraries Special Collections
Wright, Crispus A.
specol@usc.edu
Description: Warner Wright, 1864-1920, patriarch of the African-American family of Wrights. Born a slave in 1864 Louisiana. Earned a college degree in 1888 from the historic black Louisiana college Leland University. A high school teacher and principal, he moved his wife and eight children to Los Angeles for health reasons. Photograph of original oval photograph. Head shot. Wright has a moustache and is wearing a suit. He is probably in his 30's.
Type: image
Format: photograph : b&w
14 x 10 cm.
photographs
Identifier: exbt-m6
exbt-BHE-006
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m6
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-BHE-006.jpg
Subject: Educators
African Americans
African Americans--History--1877-1964
African Americans--History--1863-1877
Wright, Warner, 1864-1920
Time Period: 1890/1899
Place: USA
Source: BHE-006 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Black History Month Exhibit, Doheny Memorial Library, Spring 1999
Library Exhibits Collection
exbt-m30

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