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Pickens, Ernestine Williams. "Charles W. Chesnutt and the Progressive Movement," Emory University, May 1986.
This dissertation focuses on Charles W. Chesnutt’s involvement in the Progressive movement. Chesnutt, a black writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was an exemplar of the Progressive impulse in his middle-class mindset and his crusading spirit. An examination of his correspondence, speeches, articles, and two of his novels, The Marrow of Tradition and The Colonel’s Dream, reveals Chesnutt’s activist role as a private citizen and his intellectual insights as an artist. The Progressive Era, known for its strides in restoring the democratic ideals and moral principles lost during the rapid industrial growth of the 1870s, actually robbed black Americans of the South of their newly gained democratic rights. Chesnutt’s activism and the novels discussed illuminate this paradox.
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