Stephen Junius Wright Jr. (September 8, 1910 – April 16, 1996) was an American academic administrator. He served as the seventh president of

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, a historically black university in

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, from 1957 to 1966. He was also the president of the

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. In 1960, Wright served on a committee chaired by Madison Sarratt to put an end to the

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. Wright served on the National Commission for Libraries appointed by President

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. Knight, Douglas N. and Nourse, E. Shepley; ''Libraries At Large: Tradition, Innovation, and the National Interest'',

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, R. R. Bowker, 1969.

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1910 births 1996 deaths Hampton University alumni Howard University alumni New York University alumni Presidents of Fisk University People from Dillon, South Carolina 20th-century African-American academics 20th-century American academics {{US-academic-administrator-1910s-stub