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Charles Waddell Chesnutt ( June 20, 1858 – November 17, 1932 ) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South.
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* November 15 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist ( b. 1858 )
* June 20 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist ( d. 1932 )
* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.
He contracted construction to John Waddell, who appointed Charles Douglas Fox and James Brunlees as Engineers.
When Charles Wade became Premier in October 1907, Waddell became Colonial Treasurer until the Government's defeat by James McGowen's Labor Party in the 1910 election.
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# Crossroads and Mirrors in New World Literature, 1814-1997: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Charles Chesnutt, and Gish Jen By: Poehlmann, Bess Lyons ; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2004 June ; 64 ( 12 ): 4455.
* Author Charles W. Chesnutt makes significant use of Hoodoo in his 1899 short story collection The Conjure Woman ( stories ).
A version of local color regionalism that focused on minority experiences can be seen in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt ( African American ), of María Ruiz de Burton, one of the earliest Mexican American novelists to write in English, and in the Yiddish-inflected works of Abraham Cahan.
After the end of the Civil War, in 1867 the Chesnutt family returned to Fayetteville, when Charles was nine years old.
In terms of style and subject matter, the writings of Charles Chesnutt straddle the divide between the local color school of American writing and literary realism.
* The Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive, Sarah Browners, Berea College in cooperation with Fisk University Library
Micheaux adapted two works by Charles W. Chesnutt, which he released under their original titles: The Conjure Woman ( 1926 ) and The House Behind the Cedars.
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The first British production of the play in its regular form opened on 7 June 1889 at the Novelty Theatre, starring Janet Achurch as Nora and Charles Carrington as Torvald.
On June 25, Jarrah took Haznawi to Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale on advice of his landlord Charles Lisa.
" Malines, Lierre, Ghent, Alost, Damme, Oudenaarde, Bruges, and on 6 June Antwerp, all subsequently fell to Marlborough ’ s victorious army and, like Brussels, proclaimed the Austrian candidate for the Spanish throne, the Archduke Charles, as their sovereign.
From October 1903 to June 1904, Chaplin toured with Saintsbury in Charles Frohman's production of Sherlock Holmes.
When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.
In June 2006, newspaper allegations of crack cocaine use resulted in Charles being suspended from both Coronation Street and BBC Radio 6 Music.
General Charles Chandler Krulak ( born March 4, 1942 ) served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999.
In 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of such a machine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June entitled " Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables ".
The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.
It was not a commercial success in this form, and left the way free for Charles Francis Jenkins and his projector, the Phantoscope, with the first showing before an audience in June 1894.
They selected catcher Charles Johnson of the University of Miami with their first-ever first round draft pick in June 1992.
On 1 June 1832, Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin and the William John released their holdings of Sir John Rogerson's lands at Glasnevin, ( including Glasnevin House ) to George Hayward Lindsay.
When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.
On 12 June 1830 Polignac, King Charles X's minister, exploited the weakness of the Algerian Dey by invading Algeria and establishing French rule in Algeria.
He also appeared as Dick Burlingame and Charles Lawrence in the 1960 episodes " The Blue Goose " and " Dark Fear " of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
On March 7, 2003, the war tribunal Special Court for Sierra Leone ( SCSL ) decided to summon Charles Taylor and charge him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they kept this decision and this charge secret until June that year.
On 20 June 840, he died, in the presence of many bishops and clerics and in the arms of his half-brother Drogo, though Charles and Judith were absent in Poitiers.
In two decisive engagements — the Battle of Naseby on 14 June and the Battle of Langport on 10 July — the Parliamentarians effectively destroyed Charles ' armies.
On June 24, 1937, Pickford married her third and last husband, actor and band leader Charles ' Buddy ' Rogers.
On 25 June 1673, while preparing to storm the city, captain-lieutenant Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as the comte d ' Artagnan, was killed by a musket shot outside Tongerse Poort.
Soon her enemy and cousin, the " crafty and ambitious " Charles of Durazzo, representing the Sicilian Angevin line, was made sovereign over the Kingdom of Naples on 1 June 1381 ), and was crowned by Urban.
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