The complete online text of The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt.

Charles W. Chesnutt was the first important Afro-American writer of fiction to enlist the white-controlled publishing industry in the service of his social message, touching a significant portion of the white American reading audience with his indictment...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt, a "voluntary Negro" (one who, though so fair as to be mistaken for white, chooses not to "pass"), was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and the former Ann Maria Sampson, free blacks, who in 185...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important black writer of fiction; no black American before him had created a sustained body of significant work. Since his life spanned nearly two halves of two different centuries, his writing reflects both...

Goldblum, Robert The Jewish Week 08-26-2005 In one of the jazz world's more curious pieces of history, the saxophonists who translated the legacy of John Coltrane into a new generation -- who kept the pioneering saxophonist alive, so to speak, as jazz went...

Issues discussed concern Charles Chesnutt's fictional account of the 1898 massacre of African-Americans in Wilmington, North Carolina. Topics addressed include Chesnutt's portrayal of Southern racial politics, and the social construction and marginalization of white women and African Americans. A century after the Wilmington,...