New Releases by Elizabeth Ross

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Family Relations and Child Development in the Graduate School of Syracuse University.

The biography of Major Richard Robert Wright, who was portrayed by John Greenleaf Whittier in his poem "Howard at Atlanta," as "the black boy of Atlanta", and who later put himself through college, became an educator and civil rights organizer, went into politics, became Minister Plenipotentiary to Liberia, served as a major in the Spanish-American War, and later became a journalist, lecturer, and businessman, founding a successful bank.