W. E. B. Du Bois to Charles W. Chesnutt, 1903
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Thank you for your interest in my article I return your clipping. I could not go much in detail on account of space but I trust my words will suit you. Don't forget the periodical. I have in mind now a national weekly something like Harper's Weekly I think that properly started it would pay1
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. Harper's Weekly was an influential periodical published from 1857 to 1916 by the New York based publishing house Harper & Brothers. Distinct from Harpers' Magazine, also published by Harper & Brothers, Harper's Weekly featured more political coverage (including its famous cartoons and illustrations). It had circulation numbers well above 100,000 from the 1860s on. [back]
