BY WALTER OPINDE Charles Waddell Chesnutt, an African-American man of letters, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 20th June, 1858, the son of free blacks who had emigrated from Fayetteville, N.C. When he was eight years old, Chesnutt's parents returned to Fayetteville, where Charles worked part-time in the family grocery store and attended a school […]
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