Crystal Bird Fauset

Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset (June 27, 1893 – March 27, 1965) was an American civil rights activist, social worker, race relations specialist, and the first female African American state legislator elected in the United States, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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"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 they stand for...that is real democracy."

- Crystal Bird Fauset

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"Her greatest aim is to bring to her audience the humanness of the Negro wherever he is found."

- Crystal Bird Fauset

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