USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Crisis was an important medium for the young Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance, especially from 1919 to 1926, when Jessie Redmon Fauset was its literary editor.

Detailed explanation-2: -Known as “the midwife” of the Harlem Renaissance, Fauset was an acclaimed writer/editor who used her pen and others’-including Langston Hughes’-to further the African-American voice in public discourse. She was the only African American in her graduating class at Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Detailed explanation-3: -She also edited The Brownies’ Book, a periodical for African American children, from 1920 to 1921. Fauset left The Crisis in 1926 to teach French at a high school in the Bronx.

Detailed explanation-4: -She was born Jessie Redmona Fauset (later known as Jessie Redmon Fauset) on April 27, 1882, in Fredericksville, Camden County, Snow Hill Center Township, New Jersey (now known as Lawnside, New Jersey). She was the seventh child of Redmon Fauset, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Annie (née Seamon) Fauset.