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...

OVETTA WIGGINS, Trenton Bureau The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-30-1997 CHILDREN -- INITIATIVES SEEK TO STRENGTHEN 'OUR ONE FAMILY' By OVETTA WIGGINS, Trenton Bureau Date: 01-30-1997, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star...

It was for the sake of the children, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and Minority Whip David Bonior told their colleagues a few weeks ago, that they were spearheading what turned into President Clinton's stunning defeat on trade. Both of them had visited...