Legacy
On September 28, 2005, Oklahoma State University formally apologized to Bright and Drake University for the incident in 1951 in a letter from Oklahoma State University President David J. Schmidly to Drake President David Maxwell. The apology came twenty-two years after Bright's death.
In February 2006, the football field at Drake Stadium, in Des Moines, Iowa, was named in Bright's honor.
In September 2010, Johnny Bright School, a kindergarten through grade 9 school, was named in Bright's honour, and opened in the Rutherford neighbourhood of Edmonton. The school was officially opened on September 15 by representatives of the school district and Alberta Education Minister Dave Hancock, and included tributes from Bright's family, several dignitaries, and former colleagues of Bright from his both his athletic and educational careers.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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