Stephen Junius Wright, Jr. was an academic administrator and esteemed college president. In 1944, after a brief teaching experience in high school, Wright began his college teaching career at North Carolina College at Durham, before returning to Hampton Institute as professor of education and later as dean of the faculty. In 1953, Wright was appointed president of Bluefield State College in West Virginia before becoming the seventh president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1957 to 1966. He was also the president of the United Negro College Fund.
