#charles chesnutt

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“We are all puppets in the hands of Fate, and seldom see the strings that move us.”

― Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition

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Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

Charles Chesnutt

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There’s time enough, but none to spare.

Charles w. Chesnutt

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues o...

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Edward Christopher Williams (11 Feb. 1871 - 24 Dec. 1929) was a pioneering African American librarian, educator, and scholar who played a vital role in shaping library collections at Western Reserve University (WRU) and Howard University. Born in Cleveland to Daniel P. Williams, a prominent African American figure, and Mary Kilkary Williams, a Clevelander of Irish descent, Williams embarked on a remarkable journey of academic and professional achievement.

Graduating from Adelbert College of WRU in 1892, Williams quickly made his mark as he assumed the role of first assistant librarian at the institution. His dedication and expertise saw him ascend to the position of head librarian in 1894 and university librarian in 1898. Eager to deepen his knowledge, Williams pursued further studies in library science at the New York Library School in Albany, completing the rigorous 2-year program in just one year.

Williams's impact on WRU's library was profound; he significantly expanded its collection and elevated its standards, establishing himself as an authority in library organization and bibliography. His advocacy for the establishment of a school of library science at WRU led to its inception in 1904, where he became an esteemed instructor, offering courses in reference work, bibliography, public documents, and book selection.

A founding member of the Ohio Library Association, Williams played a pivotal role in shaping its constitution and direction. However, in 1909, he left Cleveland to assume the role of principal at M St. High School in Washington, D.C. His tenure there was marked by his unwavering commitment to education and leadership.

In 1916, Williams joined Howard University as university librarian, further cementing his legacy in the realm of academia. Not only did he oversee the university's library, but he also directed Howard's library training class, taught German, and later chaired the Department of Romance Languages.

In pursuit of academic excellence, Williams embarked on a sabbatical in 1929 to pursue a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Tragically, his studies were cut short by his untimely passing later that year.

In 1902, Williams married Ethel P. Chesnutt, the daughter of Charles Chesnutt, a renowned author. Their union bore one son, Charles, who would carry on his father's legacy in the years to come.

Read more about Edward Christopher Williams here.

[lboogie1906]

Sergeant William Hannibal Thomas (May 4, 1843 - November 15, 1935) was born in Pickaway County, Ohio to free parents. He performed manual labor and broke the color line by entering Otterbein University in 1859. His matriculation at the school sparked a race riot and he withdrew. Denied entry to the Union Army in 1861 because of his race, he served as principal of Union Seminary Institute.

After twenty-two months’ service as a servant in two white Union regiments, in 1863 he enlisted in Ohio’s first all-Black military unit, the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Appointed sergeant, he became a decorated combat soldier. He received a gunshot wound in the right arm that resulted in its amputation. He suffered pain and medical complications from this wound for the remainder of his life.

He resided in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, and Massachusetts. After attending divinity school, he worked as a journalist, teacher, theologian, lawyer, militia officer, trial justice, and elected official. The State Department appointed him consul to Portuguese Southwest Africa. He faced allegations of financial and moral improprieties from church, state, and local officials. He launched the short-lived magazine The Negro. He published Land and Education, a monograph that urged Blacks to reform themselves through prayer, improved moral values, education, and land acquisition.

He is known for The American Negro, a book that censured Blacks, especially women, and clergymen, as immoral, irresponsible, and destined to fail. He differentiated between mulattoes like himself, whom he considered superior, and Negroes, whom he judged to be hopelessly depraved. Few contemporary white critics denounced African Americans with as much crude rhetoric as he employed in The American Negro.

His book catapulted him onto the national stage. White supremacists cited The American Negro as justification for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. African Americans, including Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington, were charged with hypocrisy and sought to suppress his book. They dubbed him “Black Judas. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Hypervisibility (n.) the feeling of being overly visible because pf an individual’s race or ethnicity.

(1) Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Slave Ship

(2) Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

(3) Thylias Moss, Slave Moth

(4) Richard Wright, Native Son

(5) Wangechi Mutu, Sleeping Heads (as seen in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen)

(6) Jay-Z, “Minority Report”

(7) Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel

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CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE p.2

November Wilmington, North Carolina, riot. 1898–1899 Coal mine riots at Pana, Virden, and Carterville, Illinois. 1899 Anti-Lynching Bureau is established. Anti-Lynching League is founded. Publication of Sutton Griggs’ first novel, Imperium in Imperio. April Sam Hose is lynched in Palmetto, Georgia, for allegedly killing his white employer and committing sexual assault on the man’s wife. 1900 Ida B. Wells-Barnett publishes her third anti-lynching pamphlet, ‘‘Mob Rule in New Orleans.’’ July New Orleans, Louisiana, riot. August New York City riot. 1901 Publication of Charles Chesnutt’s novel, The Marrow of Tradition, which was based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, riot of 1898. Pierce City, Missouri, riot. lvi CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE 1903 Publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Joplin, Missouri, riot. July In what is known as the Boston riot, militant activist William Monroe Trotter and his supporters disrupt a Boston speech by Booker T. Washington. 1904 March Springfield, Ohio, riot. 1905 Publication of The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr. May First issue of the Chicago Defender. July The Niagara movement, an organization for young black intellectuals committed to ending racial prejudice, is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, and others. 1906 Springfield, Missouri, riot. January Chattanooga, Tennessee, riot. April Greensburg, Indiana, riot. August Brownsville, Texas, riot. September Atlanta, Georgia, riot; the Atlanta Civic League is organized in the weeks following the riot. 1908 William Monroe Trotter founds the all-black National Equal Rights League. August Springfield, Illinois, riot. 1909 February W.E.B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and others found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an interracial organization dedicated to legal and social reform. 1910 The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois. July Palestine, Texas, riot. 1911

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Birthdays 6.20

Beer Birthdays

Greg Robles (1964)

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Five Favorite Birthdays

Wendy Craig; English actor (1934)

Andy Etchebarren; Baltimore Orioles C (1943)

Errol Flynn; actor (1909)

Nicole Kidman; actor (1967)

Brian Wilson; pop singer, songwriter (1942)

Famous Birthdays

Danny Aiello; actor (1933)

Michael Anthony; rock bassist (1954)

Chet Atkins; guitarist (1924)

Charles W. Chesnutt; writer (1858)

Candy Clark; actor (1947)

Len Dawson; Kansas City Chiefs QB (1935)

Eric Dolphy; jazz musician (1928)

Olympia Dukakis; actor (1931)

Stephen Freaks; film director (1941)

John Goodman; actor (1952)

Billy Guy; pop singer (1936)

Lloyd Augustus Hall; chemist (1894)

Lillian Hellman; writer (1905)

Martin Landau; actor (1928)

Audie Murphy; actor (1924)

Anne Murray; pop singer (1945)

Jacques Offenbach; composer (1819)

Miles O'Keeffe; actor (1954)

Lionel Richie; pop singer (1949)

Gigi Rivera; pornstar (1989)

Robert Rodriguez; film director (1968)

Kurt Schwitters; German artist (1887)

Vikram Seth; Indian poet (1952)

John Taylor; rock guitarist, bassist (1960)

Dave Thomas; comedian, actor (1949)

James Tolkan; actor (1931)

Bob Vila; television construction host (1946)

[waltz-of-words]

“Those who set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.”

― Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition

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Alredered Remembers Charles W. Chesnutt, African-American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, on his birthday.

"Sins, like chickens, come home to roost."

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African American authors, since the 1800s, have written texts that center primarily around white characters. Robert Fikes, Jr. terms these works “white life novels” and they arose, according to Fikes, amidst “[t]he pressure to conform to majority group tastes and expectations along with the personal desire of the authors to experience complete freedom of expression.” Authors such as Amelia E. Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Attaway, Wallace Thurman, and others wrote “white life novels” between the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. These novels continued through the social protest era from the mid-1940s onward with authors such as Zora Neal Hurston, Ann Petry, and Frank Yerby.

In the Souls of White Folks: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness, Veronica Watson theorizes “the literature of white estrangement” as works and materials “that critically [engage] Whiteness as a social construction.” White estrangement literature confronts “the myths and mythologies of Whiteness,” causing readers to come face to face with “the regressive, destructive, and often uncivilized ‘nature’ of Whiteness.” Watson argues that Hurston, Yerby, Charles Chesnutt, and other African American authors engage with the literature of white estrangement because they expose “Whiteness to itself by providing a revealing counternarrative to the myths of Whiteness.”

[lboogie1906]

Attorney Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. Following the Civil Rights Movement during the 20th century, their interest in their works of him was revived. Several of his books were published in new editions, and he received formal recognition. A commemorative stamp was printed in 2008.

During the early 20th century in Cleveland, he established what became a highly successful court reporting business, which provided his main income. He became active in the NAACP, writing articles supporting education as well as legal challenges to discriminatory laws. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Charles W. Chesnutt: Pioneering African American Literary Voice

ARTICLE – MINI BIOGRAPHY – WRITER Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) was a trailblazing African American writer, essayist, and activist whose literary contributions were crucial in challenging racial stereotypes and advancing the cause of civil rights during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chesnutt’s work is celebrated for exploring complex social issues and its keen insight into the…