An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780804745086

This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by the African-American novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). His correspondents included prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance as well as major American political figures Chesnutt sought to influence on behalf of his fellow African Americans.