Alonzo Wright, shown here with his prize-winning cow, was one of Cleveland's most prominent Black businessmen and owned numerous businesses within the city, including nearly a dozen Sohio gas and service stations and the Majestic Hotel. He also owned the Ritzwood Hotel (located at East 55th Street and Woodland Avenue), which was lost in a devastating blaze in 1959. Wright was also among the first African Americans to own a home in a Cleveland suburb. A racially motivated bombing of his Cleveland Heights home in 1930 did not intimidate Wright, who remained there until moving in 1947 to a farm in western Geauga County, well beyond the racial insecurities of Cleveland's status-conscious suburbs. | Date: 1961 | Source: Cleveland Memory, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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