Jessie R. Fauset
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Jessie Redmon Fauset was an American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of Africa
Fauset in a 1921 publication
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The Crisis
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The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois, Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russe
Jessie R. Fauset
…time. Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, Fauset's position as literary editor of The Crisis, an NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era…
The Crisis, Vol. 19, No. 1, November 1919
First issue, November 1910
A 1911 copy of The Crisis depicting a copy of the relief of Nebmaatre I on Meroe pyramid 17
The August 1920 cover is a typical example of the annual education number under Du Bois's editorship.