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Milton Wright (other)
Milton Wright may refer to: *Milton Wright (bishop) Milton Wright (November 17, 1828 – April 3, 1917) was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Family Milton Wright was the son of Dan Wright and Catherine W ... (1828–1917), father of the Wright brothers * Milton Wright (academic) (1903–1972), American academic who studied in Germany * Milton Wright (American football) (born 2000), American football player {{Hndis, Wright, Milton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Wright (bishop)
Milton Wright (November 17, 1828 – April 3, 1917) was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Family Milton Wright was the son of Dan Wright and Catherine Wright (Reeder), daughter of George Reeder and Margaret Van Cleve. Margaret Van Cleve was one of the earliest women of European ancestry to settle in the Miami River basin. Milton met his future wife, Susan Catharine Koerner, b. 1831, d. 4 July 1889, at Hartsville College in 1853, where he was appointed as supervisor of the preparatory department and she was a literature student. After a long courtship, Milton asked Susan to marry him and accompany him on his assignment by the church to Oregon. She declined, but agreed to marry him when he returned. They married in 1859 when he was almost 31 and she was 28. Both shared a love of learning for the sake of learning. Their home had two libraries — the first consisted of books on theolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Wright (academic)
Milton S. J. Wright (19031972) was an African-American academic born in Georgia. He received his B.A. from Wilberforce University in 1926, his M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Germany’s University of Heidelberg in 1932, with the dissertation ''Die Wirtschafts Entwicklung und die Eingeborenenpolitik in den afrikanischen Schutzgebieten, 1884-1918'' (Economic Development and Indigenous policy in the African Protectorates, 1884–1918). He was granted an audience by Adolf Hitler in Heidelberg in 1932. Hitler pointed out that American blacks have no voting rights, and criticized them for being docile about their oppression, saying "Negroes must be definitely third-class people to allow white to lynch them, beat them, segregate them, without rising up against them!" The '' Pittsburgh Courier'' ran a front page article on the conversation shortly after the U.S. entered the Second World War. Wright noted that throughout the conversation, Hitler, thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |