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Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court

Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court

Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. In 1858, Wright traveled to Ithaca, New York where he enrolled in the Lancasterian Academy, a school where older students helped teach younger ones. Wright graduated in 1860 and for the next five years taught students in Pennsylvania. […]