As of 1923, Rights was pas­tor of the Trin­i­ty Mo­ra­vi­an Church in Win­ston-Sa­lem, North Ca­ro­li­na. His works in­clude:

• A Voy­age down the Yad­kin-Great Pee­dee Ri­ver, with Floyd Ro­gers (Wins­ton-Sa­lem, North Car­o­li­na: 1928)
• Yadkin Pass­age, with Floyd Ro­gers
• “The Trading Path to the In­dians” (The North Car­o­li­na His­tor­ic­al Re­view: vol­ume VIII, num­ber 4, Oc­to­ber 1931)
• The Amer­i­can In­di­an in North Car­o­li­na (Duke Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1947)
• The Be­gin­ning of Beth­a­ba­ra - in Wa­cho­via, the First Mo­ra­vi­an Set­tle­ment in North Car­o­li­na (Win­ston-Sa­lem, North Car­o­li­na: Wa­cho­via His­tor­ic­al So­ci­e­ty & Old Sa­lem, Inc., 1953)
• Records of the Mo­ra­vi­ans in North Car­o­li­na, with Ad­e­laide L. Fries (Ral­eigh, North Car­o­li­na: State De­part­ment of Ar­chives and His­to­ry, 1954)

The Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­o­li­na at Cha­pel Hill has an ar­chae­o­lo­gic­al col­lect­ion named af­ter Rights.

Lyrics

1. Veiled in Dark­ness Ju­dah Lay