W. E. B. Du Bois to Charles W. Chesnutt, 10 April 1931
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EDITORIAL ROOMS OF
THE CRISIS
69 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK. N.Y.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS
April 10, 1931.
Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt,
9719 Lamont Avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio.
My dear Mr. Chesnutt:
I have read your article in THE COLOPHON1 and I am much pleased with it. I want to republish it in THE CRISIS and the Editor has written me as follows:
"The editors of The Colophon have no objection to your using the Chesnutt article, either in part or in whole, providing, of course, that you have Mr. Chesnutt's consent and protect the Colophon's copyright."
I trust I may have your consent. I hope this will find you in good health.
Very sincerely yours, W.E.B. Du Bois WEBD/DWCorrespondent: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was a sociologist, historian, and world-renowned civil rights activist. After completing coursework at the University of Berlin and Harvard University, Du Bois became the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard in 1895. He was a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University (1897–1910 and again in the 1930s). He was a prominent leader of the Niagara Movement and helped found the NAACP in 1909. As the editor of the NAACP's journal, The Crisis, from 1910 to 1931, Du Bois published four of Chesnutt's short stories as well as two of his essays. See "The Doll" (April 1912), "Mr. Taylor's Funeral" (April/May 1915), "The Marked Tree" (Dec 1924/Jan 1925), and "Concerning Father" (May 1930); and "Women's Rights" (1915) and "The Negro in Art" (November 1926).
1. The essay, titled "Post Bellum, Pre-Harlem," appeared in the February 1931 issue of The Colophon. In preparation, according to his daughter, Chesnutt "exhumed his scrap books [and] reread old letters" (see Helen M. Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line [Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1952], 311). [back]
