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Thomas A. Wright Sr.

1920–2014

United States

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Reverend Thomas Alexander Wright Sr. (March 26, 1920 – December 9, 2014) was a civil rights leader and former president of the Gainesville, Florida chapter of the NAACP in the early 1960s. Wright was a prominent religious leader who preached throughout various parts of Florida, as well as a World War II veteran.

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