- Collection:
- Black Trailblazers, Leaders, Activists, and Intellectuals in Cleveland
- Title:
- Alonzo Wright, dressed in a commencement gown and hood, shakes hands with Bishop Wilkes in 1967
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cole, Joseph E.
- Date of Original:
- 1967-04-18
- Subject:
- African Americans
Political activists
Civil rights
Cleveland (Ohio) - People:
- Wright, Alonzo, 1914-1991
- Location:
- United States, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, 41.4995, -81.69541
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Left to Right: Alonzo G. Wright, Dr. Rembert E. Stokes, and Bishop W. R. Wilkes
Business -- Community -- Business people -- Sohio -- African Americans
Alonzo Wright was one of the most successful black entrepreneurs in Cleveland's history and was the city's first black millionaire. He was the first African American to lease a Sohio Gas Station. He operated 11 gas stations in 1940 and he had hired the largest number of black youths in the United States. Wright left the gas station business and established a real estate firm. He owned the Carnegie Hotel, Ritzwood Hotel, and established the Dunbar Nursing Home. - Metadata URL:
- http://clevelandmemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/afro/id/2049
- IIIF manifest:
- https://clevelandmemory.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/afro:2049/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
- Extent:
- 6 x 8 in.
- Original Collection:
- Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Black Trailblazers, Leaders, Activists, and Intellectuals in Cleveland
Cleveland Press - Contributing Institution:
- Michael Schwartz Library
- Rights:
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Alonzo Wright, dressed in a commencement gown and hood, shakes hands with Bishop Wilkes in 1967
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