Word: chesnutt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers. So this was no reckless appraisal...