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For White People Only. Others Please Keep Out.

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Illustration by Clyde O. De Land from Charles W. Chesnutt, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901), p. 288.

Date created
1901
License
This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
Source
Original image housed by UNC Libraries / Documenting the American South

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  • North Carolina in the New South: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the decades after the Civil War (1870–1900). Topics include changes in agriculture, the growth of cities and industry, the experiences of farmers and mill workers, education, cultural changes, politics and political activism, and the Wilmington Race Riot. (Page 5.2)

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illustration from 'the bouquet'

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This illustration from Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s 1901 short story “The Bouquet” shows Sophy, an African American girl, peering through the gate of a cemetery that was open to whites only. The caption reads “For White People Only. Others Please Keep Out.”