Charles W. Chesnutt to Lessie Ophelia Toler, 25 April 1932
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April 25, 1932
Miss Lessie Toler,
Box 827,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
My dear Miss Toler:
I am in receipt of your questionnaire on the subject of the Negro and Communism. I have marked the questions in accordance with your suggestions, and have made some notes on the back of the page, and return the same to you herewith.
Very truly yours, CWC:ES1Correspondent: Lessie Ophelia Toler Fleming (1904–1960) was a White social worker who received her master's degree in sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1932 with her thesis "Communism and the Negro." She supervised social field work for the state of North Carolina in various capacities and regions from about 1935 through 1942. She later became a professor of sociology at Kent State University in Ohio, along with her husband, the sociologist James E. Fleming (1909–1964).
1. Emilie Skarabotta (1908–1990), the daughter of Hungarian immigrants, was a stenographer and notary public who worked for Chesnutt's and Helen Moore's stenography business in the early 1930s. She was eventually listed on the firm's letterhead. [back]
