![]() ![]() Wright moved to New York in 1919 and set up a private practice. While in the military, Wright developed the first intradermal injection for smallpox. He also joined the military before the end of World War I and did a tour of duty in France as part of the U.S. In 1916, Wright returned to Atlanta, went into practice with his stepfather, and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ![]() While at Freedmen’s Hospital, Wright demonstrated the efficacy in African Americans of the Schick test used to determine an individual’s vulnerability to diphtheria. Wright completed his postgraduate residency training at Freedmen’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. ![]() After Wright’s father died, his mother married William Fletcher Penn, an Atlanta physician who was the first Black person to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine.įollowing in his father and stepfather’s footsteps, Wright graduated from Clark University in 1911 and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1915. His father, Ceah, was born into slavery, but completed medical school and became a doctor and Methodist preacher. Louis Tompkins Wright was born in LaGrange in 1891. (Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Library of Congress, LOT 13074, no. ![]()
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