Dr bobby e wright biography
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LICENSES & ACCREDITATIONS
The Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Inc., is a non-profit that has been providing quality mental health care, addictions treatment, and developmental disability services for more than 51 years. B.E.W. provides support and treatment to youth, adults and families living within Chicago’s Westside communities and surrounding areas.
We provide a holistic, evidenced-based approach, toward positiv mental health in the home, at work and in the community. We partner with each consumer to strive towards accomplishing their individual goals. These services are available to all persons who meet the admission criteria regardless of gender, sexuell orientation, race, nationality, religion, etc. No one is denied services due to inability to pay.
The Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Inc. (B.E.W.) was originally incorporated as the Garfield Park Comprehensive Community Me
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MENTACIDE: THE ULTIMATE THREAT TO THE BLACK RACE
So many of the problems that African people face in the world today are due to the assault on our minds by those who captured us and removed significant numbers of us to the western hemisphere. This also included the mind damage caused by the tampering with of African lands and culture on the continent of Africa.
Most African people in America are aware that our minds were tampered with as a result of our forced capture and enslavement in America. The impact of this process is central to the international component of the Reparations Movement that we must focus on, and that is the “Repair of Ourselves” at the same time we demand reparations from the government and private corporations that benefited from our enslavement and still benefit today. Examining and reexamining the contributions of the late Dr. Bobby Wright provides a significant source we can utilize in addressing our “internal reparations” challenges.
The contributions
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Bobby Eugene Wright, Pan-African clinical psychologist, mental health administrator, and theorist, was born March 1, in Anniston, Alabama. Reared in Hobson City, Alabama’s first all-Black town, by mother Myrtle M. Johnson, stepmother Zellar C. Royle, and father, Bennie Henry Wright (), a Monsanto Chemical Company laborer. He was the fifth of six siblings, Albert, Bennie, John, Nellie, and Levi.
Wright served in the US Army from to and then moved to Chicago, Illinois where in he married Easter M. Overton, a Hyde Park Career Academy High School mathematics teacher. They had one son, Marcus Delaney. Wright completed the B.S. in Education at Chicago State University in and an M.A. in Counseling & Guidance two years later. He earned a University of Chicago Clinical Psychology Ph.D.
A truant officer for Chicago Public Schools in the s, Wright was a member of the Association of Afro-American Educators and the Chicago Teachers Union. In he organized the Black Teachers Caucus, which su