Word: artisan
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Self-Made Man." Medium-brown Chester Olivier, 16, is also lower-middle class, the son of a Creole artisan who deserted his wife and four children for a mistress. But Chester is on the way up. Prodded by his ambitious mother, smart Chester is now a junior in a private prep school, active in dramatics, vice president of his class, goes to dances with lightskinned, upper-class girls, teaches Sunday school in the Methodist Church (higher in the social scale than his mother's Spiritualist Church), was recently voted "fifth most popular Negro in New Orleans...