Women's History Month Featured Leader: Jessie Redmon Fauset

In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Editor, writer, and civil rights activist (1882 – 1961)
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• Literary editor of the NAACP’s magazine “Crisis”
• Among those credited with ushering in a new wave of African-American literature
• One of the first African-American people to graduate from Cornell University
• Wrote four novels focusing on the theme of human relationships in the midst of racial and sexual barriers