Biography of jessie redmon fauset

(1882-1961)

Who Was Jessie Fauset?

In 1912, Jessie Fauset began to write for The Crisis, a magazine founded by W.E.B.

Du Bois. Du Bois hired Fauset to be the magazine's literary editor in 1919.

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In this role, she encouraged many Harlem Renaissance writers. She also wrote four novels of her own.

Early Life

Jessie Redmon Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in New Jersey's Camden County. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Biography of jessie redmon fauset

Her family was not well-off, but they valued education.

Fauset attended the esteemed Philadelphia High School for Girls, where she was likely the sole African American in her class. She wanted to go on to Bryn Mawr College.

However, the institution was reluctant to accept its first Black student, choosing instead to help Fauset get a scholarship to attend Cornell University.

Fauset did well at Cornell and was selected to join Phi Beta Kappa (some sources have incorrectly identified her as the first African American woman to become a m