In Memoriam: Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright
Image courtesy of Click on Detroit: Wilbur Hughes III (L), Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright (Center), Jeffrey Lieber (R). (Museum of African American History) In Memoriam: Roberta Hughes Wright, PhD, JD April 17, 1922-April 2, 2019 Long known as the First Lady of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan,
Charleston’s IAAM to help African-Americans push past the ‘1870 brick wall’
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