In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
Today we’re celebrating:
Today we’re celebrating:
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Editor, writer, and civil rights activist (1882 – 1961)
Editor, writer, and civil rights activist (1882 – 1961)
- 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
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