Charles H. Wright

Charles Howard Wright (September 20, 1918 – March 7, 2002) was a Detroit physician and founder of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

Early life Charles H. Wright was born on the 18th of September 1918 in Dothan, Alabama, United States of America. He graduated from Southeast High School (where?) in 1935. He attended Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), graduating in 1939, and entered Meharry Medical College, from which he graduated in 1943. The next year, he opened a traveling exhibit to tour the state. In 1978, the city of Detroit agreed to lease the museum a plot of land in Midtown. Groundbreaking for the new museum occurred in 1985, and the museum was renamed the Museum of African American History. A larger museum was built ten years later, opening in 1997. In 1998, the museum was renamed the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in dedication of Dr. Wright.

Personal life

Wright met and married Louise Lovett, a librarian from Chicago, in 1950. They had two children, Stephanie Wright Griggs and Carla Wright. Louise Lovett Wright died in 1985. The library at the Charles H. Wright Museum is named the Louise Lovett Library in her honor.

Wright then met Roberta Hughes an accomplished educator, attorney and author who loved working with children. They were married in 1989. At that time, Mrs Hughes Wright already had a son and daughter with her first husband, Wilbur B. Hughes Jr.