Fauset graduated from Cornell University in 1905, possibly the first black woman in Phi Beta Kappa, and came to the NAACP's journal, "The Crisis", in 1912 when it was only 16 months old.
Fauset graduated from Cornell University in 1905, possibly the first black woman in Phi Beta Kappa. Jessie Fausset came to the NAACP's journal, "The Crisis", in 1912 when it was only 16 months old.