Dedication: Dr. Izola Young
| This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Izola Young, former Assistant Professor of English at Fayetteville State University. In the late 1970's she played a vital role in initiating the Charles W. Chesnutt Arts Festival, an annual event that continues to be presented each April at Fayetteville State University as a means of paying tribute to Charles Chesnutt. Dr. Young also helped plan and implement "Fiction, Social Change, and Charles W. Chesnutt's Fayetteville," a project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1988. When Dr. Young died in 1992, Fayetteville State University and the scholarly community lost one of Chesnutt's most astute and eloquent admirers and critics. |  |