Crystal Bird Fauset
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Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset was a civil rights activist, social worker, race relations specialist, and the first African American woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, based in Phil
Crystal Bird Fauset
May 1943: President of Liberia, Edwin Barclay, meets Office of Civilian Defense special consultant, Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, after a press conference in Washington, D.C.
James M. Landis
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James McCauley Landis was an American government official and legal adviser. He served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1935 to 1937.
Crystal Bird Fauset
…World War II agencies of the Roosevelt administration. The OCD was headed by Mayor of New York City Fiorello LaGuardia from 1941 to 1942, and then by James M. Landis. The agency was tasked with coordinating and monitoring the volunteer defense activities of American men, women, and children on the home front. By the…
Landis, c. 1938