Stephen Junius Wright Jr. (September 8, 1910 – April 16, 1996) 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. He was also the president of the United Negro College Fund. In 1960, Wright served on a committee chaired by Madison Sarratt to put an end to the Nashville sit-ins.
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8 September 1910
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Died |
16 April 1996 (aged 85)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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