Beautiful, Black and accomplished, Jessie Fauset is a name that you should all know and if you don't, well shame on you! Listen here and learn a thing or two. This woman was the only, yes i said it , the only African American student to graduate from Philadelphia High school in 1900 and she did it with honors. This woman started out strong. After graduating from Cornell and being turned down by jobs because of her race, she managed to stay strong and score a D.C. job teaching French in high school. This ended after fourteen years when she moved on to an editing position for Crisis magazine, which was offered by W.E.B Du Bois himself. There she not only discovered some of the most affluential writers of our day, but also became one by contributing her own works to the magazine. In the early 20's she was the editor of the Brownie's Book, an NAACP children's magazine. Don't be fooled by the press people, W.E.B Du Bois was not responsible for half of what he is said to have done with Brownie's Book, this great woman was unfortunately covered by his shadow. She's writing novels as we speak and I am sure will be writing until age disables her phalanges.
http://www.biography.com/articles/Jessie-Redmon-Fauset-9292341
http://www.afropoets.net/jessiefauset.html
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