Stephen J. Wright

{{Short description|American academic administrator}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Stephen J. Wright | image = Stephen J. Wright.jpg | birth_name = Stephen Junius Wright Jr. | birth_date = September 8, 1910<ref>''U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947''</ref> | birth_place = Dillon, South Carolina | death_date = {{dda|1996|04|16|1910|9|8}} | death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | known_for = President of Fisk University (1957–1966) | alma_mater = Hampton University<br/>Howard University<br/>New York University | occupation = University administrator | spouse = Rosalind Wright }} '''Stephen Junius Wright Jr.''' (September 8, 1910 – April 16, 1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fisk.edu/assets/files/el/wright-stephenj.presidentialpaperscollection1957-1966.pdf |title=Stephen J. Wright Presidential Papers 1957–1966 |accessdate=February 3, 2018}}</ref> was an American academic administrator. He served as the seventh president of Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1957 to 1966.<ref name="nytimesobit">{{cite news|title=Stephen Wright, 85; Led in Education for Blacks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/19/us/stephen-wright-85-led-in-education-for-blacks.html|accessdate=January 26, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=April 19, 1996}}</ref><ref name="washpostobit">{{cite news |title=Stephen J. Wright Jr. Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/04/20/stephen-j-wright-jr-dies/2952f3cf-d7db-431d-9ad2-a0829c67933e/|accessdate=January 26, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 20, 1996}}</ref> He was also the president of the United Negro College Fund.<ref name="tennesseanobit">{{cite news |last1=Benavides |first1=Lisa |title=Stephen Wright dies; a former Fisk president|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/113453512/?terms=%22Stephen%2BWright%22 |accessdate=January 26, 2018 |work=The Tennessean|date=April 20, 1996|page=3|via=Newspapers.com |url-access=registration }}</ref> In 1960, Wright served on a committee chaired by Madison Sarratt to put an end to the Nashville sit-ins.<ref name="nashvilleway106">{{cite book |last1=Houston |first1=Benjamin |title=The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City |date=2012 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |location=Athens, Georgia |isbn=9780820343266|oclc=940632744 |pages=106–107}}</ref>

Wright served on the National Commission for Libraries appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. <ref>Knight, Douglas N. and Nourse, E. Shepley; ''Libraries At Large: Tradition, Innovation, and the National Interest'', New York, R. R. Bowker, 1969.</ref>

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