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Crystal Bird Fauset and Eleanor Roosevelt

Crystal Bird Fauset and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt developed a close friendship over the years.  This thread of 107 letters between the two shows the breadth, depth, and impact of their relationship.

Charles Barkley’s Black History Month All Stars

Charles Barkley’s Black History Month All Stars

All Star #6: Crystal Bird Fauset

BY Charles Barkley

Feb. 08, 2016

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EDUCATION:
  • Columbia University Teachers College, B.S. 1931

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
  •  Worked on the Interracial committee for the American Friends Service Committee, speaking to over 40,000 mainly white audience members
  • Chairperson of the Philadelphia Negro Woman’s Democratic League
  • Executive secretary of Institute of Race Relations at Swarthmore College
  • First African American woman to take a seat in state legislature in the U.S.

 

FINAL WORD:

“We should not want to think of America as a ‘melting pot,’ but as a great interracial-laboratory where Americans can really begin to build the thing which the rest of the world feels that they stand for today, and that is real democracy,” Fauset said in the 1940 Woman’s Centennial Congress.

 

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