Deacon contributes to black history
WASHINGTON, D.C., - The Rev. Arthuree McLaughlin Wright, serving in extension ministries at Howard University Libraries, has contributed to a landmark publication, the eight-volume "African-American National Biography," released by Oxford University Press.
The compilation of 4,000 biographies of African Americans includes 176 Methodists, among them eight current and former United Methodist leaders.
Among the essays Wright, an ordained Deacon, contributed to the collection were those about Emma S.C. Ransom, wife of AME Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom; Susie Shorter, daughter of AME Bishop James L. Shorter; the barrier-breaking Mary Eleanora McCoy, wife of inventor Elijah McCoy; and Lena Doolin Mason, an evangelist who drew thousands of white and black citizens to her mid-west revivals.
She also wrote about Emma Wilson, a Presbyterian educator, whose pupil was Mary McLeod Bethune, at the school Wilson founded in South Carolina.
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