{"id":208,"date":"2018-01-16T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=208"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:51","slug":"quarry-chapter-xiv","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/quarry-chapter-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter XIV"},"content":{"raw":"<pre><strong>\u201c<\/strong>He had formed many friendships in the university, the most outstanding of which was that with Dr. Lebrun, professor of history and dean of the university, and the leader of the radical wing of national Negro thought.\u201d<strong>\u00a0 (p. 106)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\">Chesnutt based this character on <strong>W.E.B. DuBois.<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<pre>\u201cThe pseudo-scientific Nordic propagandists had, by their pontifical announcements, prepared the soil for the Ku Klux Klan\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <strong>(p. 107)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\">According to Dean McWilliams, Chesnutt wrote in his Ohio University manuscript, \u201cthe propagandists of race purity-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lothrop_Stoddard\"><strong>Lathrop Stoddard<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amren.com\/news\/2010\/07\/madison_grant_a\/\"><strong>Madison Grant<\/strong><\/a> and other pseudo-scientists of their school.\u201d<\/div>\r\n<pre>\u201c\u2026it was at first assumed that the murderer was a Negro.\u00a0 But very soon suspicion fell upon the girl\u2019s employer, a Jewish merchant of good standing.\u201d<strong>\u00a0 (p. 108)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\">\r\nThe unnamed character is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/nge\/Article.jsp?id=h-906\"><strong>Leo M. 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