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520 a| City administrator, civil rights activist, and corporate executive Robert Lee Wright was born on March 17, 1937, in Columbus, Georgia. Wright graduated in 1960 from Ohio State University College of Optometry with his degree in optometry. He returned to Georgia where he began practicing as an optometrist. In 1965, he participated in the Selma to Montgomery March. In 1968, he won a seat as a member of the Columbus City Council, where he was re-elected three times before being appointed to the position of Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development by President Ronald Reagan. In 1985, he founded Dimensions International, Inc., providing leading-edge technology to the government and private sector in the fields of logistic support, systems engineering and integration, information management and technology, airspace management and security engineering and operations. Under Wright's leadership, Dimensions International grew to a multimillion dollar defense contractor, listed amongst Black Enterprise's 100.;

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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Wright.

Format	Video (Streaming)
Publication	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description	1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 20 min.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Content	https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2008.077
Subjects	Wright, Robert, 1937---Interviews. African Americans--Interviews.

Other author/creator	Wright, Robert, 1937- interviewee.
Other author/creator	Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creator	Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creator	HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title	History Makers video oral history with Robert Wright
Portion of title	Robert Wright
Abstract	City administrator, civil rights activist, and corporate executive Robert Lee Wright was born on March 17, 1937, in Columbus, Georgia. Wright graduated in 1960 from Ohio State University College of Optometry with his degree in optometry. He returned to Georgia where he began practicing as an optometrist. In 1965, he participated in the Selma to Montgomery March. In 1968, he won a seat as a member of the Columbus City Council, where he was re-elected three times before being appointed to the position of Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development by President Ronald Reagan. In 1985, he founded Dimensions International, Inc., providing leading-edge technology to the government and private sector in the fields of logistic support, systems engineering and integration, information management and technology, airspace management and security engineering and operations. Under Wright's leadership, Dimensions International grew to a multimillion dollar defense contractor, listed amongst Black Enterprise's 100.
Credits	Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer	Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event note	Recorded Alexandria, Virginia 2008 May 1.
Source of description	Vendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/form	Internet videos.
Genre/form	Interviews.
Genre/form	Nonfiction films.
Genre/form	Oral histories.
Genre/form	Oral histories.
Genre/form	Internet videos.
Genre/form	Nonfiction films.
Stock number	A2008.077 HistoryMakers

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