Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-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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Dr. Price was not entirely at ease in his mind as the two doctors drove rapidly from the hotel to Major Carteret's. Himself a liberal man, from his point of view, he saw no reason why a colored doctor might not operate upon a white male child,there are fine distinctions in the application of the color line,but several other physicians had been invited, some of whom were men of old-fashioned notions, who might not relish such an innovation.
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Dr. Price was not entirely at ease in his mind as the two doctors drove rapidly from the hotel to Major Carteret's. Himself a liberal man, from his point of view, he saw no reason why a colored doctor might not operate upon a white male child,there are fine distinctions in the application of the color line,but several other physicians had been invited, some of whom were men of old-fashioned notions, who might not relish such an innovation.