Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Jessie Redmon Fauset," Laura Wheeler Waring, 1945.
I've talked about Waring (1887-1948) before; she was THE great portraitist of the Harlem Renaissance, chronicling early figures of the Civil Rights movement.
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was an author, poet, editor, & essayist. In 1919 she became the literary editor of "The Crisis," the magazine of the NAACP, where she discovered & mentored a number of young Black writers, including Langston Hughes, who called her "the midwife of the birth of New Negro literature." Her work as an editor and mentor made her a pivotal figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Her half-brother Arthur Fauset was a Civil Rights activist, anthropologist, folklorist, and author in his own right.
She left "The Crisis" in 1926 after a series of conflicts with its main editor, W. E. B. Dubois, and became a teacher while writing some novels on the side, noted for their realistic and positive views of Black American life, and exploring such issues as "passing" for white.
Fauset's work fell out of the limelight in the 30s, but in the 70s she was rediscovered and praised by a new generation.
Quite a lady!
From the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
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