Howard Emery Wright
American psychologist
Howard Emery Wright (1908–1988) was an African-American social psychologist and educator. He served as President of Allen University, in the U.S. Office of Education, and as Director of the Division of Social Sciences at The Hampton Institute. He studied attitudinal testing.
Early life
Wright was born in 1908 in Philadelphia to William and Evelyn Wright. He attended elementary school in Washington D.C. He was a graduate of Atlantic City High School in New Jersey.
Undergraduate and graduate years
Wright received a bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1932. He received a master's degree from Ohio State University in 1933, with a thesis on attitudinal testing. He received a PhD in psychology at Ohio State University in 1946.
Careers
Wright became principal of the Campus Laboratory School at Albany State College in Georgia at age twenty five until 1934. He was principal at Aracoma High School in West Virginia (1936 to 1939).
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