Registering as a Democrat, she helped mobilized African-American women to vote. In the early 1930s Crystal Bird Fauset worked for the Institute of Race Relations at Swarthmore College, documenting the inequality of employment and housing for African Americans. Meeting of the Second National Negro Congress, Philadelphia, PA October 15. His half-sister was the Harlem Renaissance novelist Jessie Redmond Fauset. A principal at Philadelphia's all-black Joseph Singerly School, Fauset, who was also a respected folklorist and writer, hailed from an old Delaware Valley African-American family. In 1931 Bird graduated from Columbia and married educator Arthur Huff Fauset (1899- 1983). In the late 1920s, she studied at Teachers College, Columbia University, and lectured on African American culture for the American Friends Service Committee, the activist arm of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). From 1918 to 1926, Bird served as field secretary for African-American girls in the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Born in 1894 in Princess Anne, Maryland, Crystal Bird was raised in Boston, and there, from 1914 to 1918 worked as a public school teacher. In the 1930s, Pennsylvania's most dynamic African-American political couple was Arthur Huff and Crystal Bird Fauset. American Friends Service Committee Speaker's Bureau flyer for Crystal Bird of.
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