W. E. B. Du Bois to Charles W. Chesnutt, 20 June 1928
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8/9/37
June 20, 1928.
Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt,
9719 Lamont Avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Please rush us good photograph for use in CRISIS.1
W. E. B. Du Bois.Correspondent: 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 photograph, with the caption "Charles W. Chesnutt, Fourteenth Spingarn Medalist," accompanied an article about the NAACP annual conference, held that year in Los Angeles, where Chesnutt was awarded the Spingarn Medal. See "The N.A.A.C.P. Battle Front: The Nineteenth Annual Conference," The Crisis 35, no. 8 (August 1928): 265. [back]
