Charles Waddell Chesnutt collection, 1821-1976.

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt collection, 1821-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70965180

Materials include correspondence, photographs, financial ledger, scrapbook, diplomas, artifacts, rare books, letters from family members, postcards, and letter to Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and his wife.

22 linear ft.

Fayetteville State University, Charles W. Chesnutt Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8056487

Fayetteville State University, Charles W. Chesnutt Library

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Chesnutt, Andrew J. (Andrew Jackson), 1833-1920

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State Colored Normal School (Fayetteville, N.C.)

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Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important African-American author, and earned a reputation for both his socially conscious work and his literary innovation. Born in Cleveland to free black parents, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and travelled throughout the south, as well as New York and Washington, D.C., before settling in Cleveland with his wife. He had worked as a teacher, and in Cleveland started a successful stenography business, learned law, and passed the bar ...