John B. Wright was a tailor and legislator in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1868 until 1872 representing Charleston. Researchers documented him as being Black, free before the Civil War, and literate.[1] He was a president of the Colored Young Men's Christian Association.[1] His photograph was included in a montage of Radical Republican South Carolina legislators.[2]
John B. Wright | |
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| South Carolina House of Representatives | |
| In office 1868–1872 | |
References
edit- ^ a b Hine, Darlene Clark; Jenkins, Earnestine L.; Jenkins, Earnestine (1999). A Question of Manhood: The 19th century : from emancipation to Jim Crow. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21460-7.
- ^ "Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature" (photograph and description). National Museum of African American History and Culture. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 1868. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
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