Jessie Redmon Fauset

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Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator.

Her literary work influenced African-American literature in the 1920s as she sought to present a realistic picture of African-American life and history.

Her black fictional characters were employed professionals, which was an inconceivable notion to American society at the time. During this period, her story lines were based on concepts of racial discrimination, "passing," and feminism.

Fauset's position as literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP publication, enabled her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that was connected to current social movements.

She discouraged black writers from lessening the racial attributes of their writing and encouraged them to write honestly and openly about the African-American race as a literary editor and reviewer.

She wanted a realistic and positive representation of the African-American community in literature that had never before been prominently displayed.

She served in Washington, DC, and New York City before and after working on The Crisis.

She wrote four books in the 1920s and 1930s chronicling the lives of the black middle class.

She was also the editor and co-author of The Brownies' Book, an African-American children's magazine.

Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay are among the African-American writers she has written, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.

Life and work

Jessie Redmon Fauset, later known as Jessie Redmon Fauset, was born in Fredericksville, Camden County, New Jersey, on April 27, 1882. The town now known as Lawnside, New Jersey. She was the seventh child of Redmon Fauset, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Annie (née Seamon) Fauset. Jessie's mother died young, and her father remarried. Bella, a white Jewish woman who converted to Christianity, had three children with him. Bella's first marriage gave her three children to the family. Both parents advocated for education for their children. Arthur Fauset, a civil rights activist and anthropologist, was her half-brother.

Fauset was born from a large family of poverty. Her father died when she was young; two of her half-siblings were still under the age of five. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls, the city's best academic institution. She graduated as the valedictorian of her class and possibly the school's first African-American graduate. She wanted to study at Bryn Mawr College, but the valedictorian of Girls' High was given a scholarship to the college. However, Bryn Mawr president M. Carey Thomas paid for Fauset to attend Cornell University rather than Fauset's, and she's barred black students from attending Bryn Mawr during her tenure.

She continued her education at Cornell University in upstate New York, graduating in 1905 with a degree in classical languages. Fauset lived at Sage College during her 1903 to 1904 tenure. She is expected to win Phi Beta Kappa awards. For many years she was thought to be the first black woman to be admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, but later study revealed it was actually Mary Annette Anderson. Fauset earned her master's degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania (1919).

Fauset earned his teaching degree at Dunbar High School (then designated as M Street High School), the Washington, D.C. public school system, which had a segregated public school system. She taught French and Latin, then went to Paris for the summers to study at La Sorbonne in La Sorbonne.

Fauset left teaching to become the literary editor for The Crisis, which was founded by W. E. B. The NAACP's Du Bois is the NAACP's chairman. She served in that capacity until 1926. Fauset was a member of the NAACP and represented them in the Pan African Congress in 1921. The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority made her an honorary member after her Congress address.

Fauset left The Crisis and returned to teaching, this time at DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, where she may have taught a young James Baldwin. She worked in public schools in New York City until 1944.

Fauset married Herbert Harris in 1929, when she was 47 years old. They went from New York City to Montclair, New Jersey, where they led a quieter life. Harris died in 1958. With her step-brother, one of Bella's children, she returned to Philadelphia. Fauset died of heart disease on April 30, 1961, and he is laid to rest in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.

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