{"id":2295,"date":"2011-08-18T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:46:26","slug":"wright-charles-howard-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"WRIGHT, CHARLES HOWARD, 1918-2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician; social activist. Born&#8211; September 20, 1918, in Dothan, Ala. Parents&#8211; Willie P. and Laura (Florence) Wright. Married&#8211; Louise L. Lovett, February 11, 1950. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Alabama State College, B. S., 1939; Meharry Medical College, M.D., 1943. Practiced medicine, Harlem Hospital, New York City, 1943-1945 and 1950-1953; Cleveland City Hospital, 1945; Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, 1946-1950, 1953-1986. Founder and chairman, Afro-American Museum, Detroit; president, African Medical Education Fund; trustee, University of Detroit. Writer and producer, &#8220;Were You There&#8221;&#8211;musical drama and television special; executive producer, &#8220;This Bank is Open to You&#8212;film; director, &#8220;You Can Be a Doctor&#8221;&#8211;film; producer, &#8220;Venereal Disease&#8221;&#8211;television special; writer and narrator, radio documentaries on Paul Robeson and Rosa Parks. Died March 7,2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robeson, Labor&#8217;s Forgotten Champion. Detroit, Mich.; Balamp Pub., 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician; social activist. Born&#8211; September 20, 1918, in Dothan, Ala. Parents&#8211; Willie P. and Laura (Florence) Wright. Married&#8211; Louise L. Lovett, February 11, 1950. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Alabama State College, B. S., 1939; Meharry Medical College, M.D., 1943. Practiced medicine, Harlem Hospital, New York City, 1943-1945 and 1950-1953; Cleveland City Hospital, 1945; Hutzel Hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}