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DAVE'S NECKLISS -- Ossie Davis in a story by Charles Chesnutt RADIO ACTION THEATER
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Charles Chesnutt was a pioneering African-American author who wrote a number of novels about middle class and professional blacks but found that white readers wanted only to hear about black characters from the lower strata, who spoke in dialects reminiscent of slavery. White author Joel Chandler Harris had created in Uncle Remus a kindly black man who looked back fondly on his slavery days. In The Conjure Woman, his best known work, Chesnutt created the character of Uncle Julius,...
Charles Chesnutt was a pioneering African-American author who wrote a number of novels about middle class and professional blacks but found that white readers wanted only to hear about black characters from the lower strata, who spoke in dialects reminiscent of slavery. White author Joel Chandler Harris had created in Uncle Remus a kindly black man who looked back fondly on his slavery days. In The Conjure Woman, his best known work, Chesnutt created the character of Uncle Julius,...
43 min