Sophie B. Wright

Sophie Bell Wright (1866 - 6 April, 1912) was a New Orleans, Louisiana educator.

Wright was born to a formerly well to do family that was impoverished as a result of the American Civil War. She was crippled by a childhood accident, and started teaching in her teens. She started several free schools and the city's "Home for Incurables", a care facility for the disabled and gravely ill.

Wright was also active in the Prison reform movement, projects to build public playgrounds, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

She was buried in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans has a school and a street named after her as well as a statue of her on Magazine Street.

External links

* [http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2002-06-25/blake.html Biography on Best of New Orleans site]
* [http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/bios/wright_sophie.htm Biography on People of Scots Decent site]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/rbcmillerbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbcmiller002102)) Reproduction of 1909 Boston newspaper article on Library of Congress site]
* [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/soc/women/lawomen/wright.html Biography on Louisiana Leaders site]