Education Career
Chesnutt continued to study and teach. He eventually was promoted to assistant principal of the normal school in Fayetteville, one of a number of historically black colleges established for the training of black teachers. Reconstruction legislatures had created the first systems of public education in the South, but kept it segregated and hired black teachers for black students. The normal school developed into Fayetteville State University.
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