Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Pioneer of the Color Line

By Helen M. Chesnutt

338 pp., 5.25 x 8

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9636-5
    Published: April 2011
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-4020-4
    Published: October 2017
  • E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7629-4
    Published: October 2017

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The driving force in Chesnutt's life was the wish to help his race. Long before the days of the NAACP, which he later joined, and to the end of his life, he lectured, wrote,and corresponded on the everlasting problem." His letters reveal courage and good sense with which he faced racial discrimination."

Originally published in 1952.

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