Jessie Redmon Fauset.

"Or else I watch the squirrels frisk And chaffer in the grassy lane; And all the while I mark your voice Breaking with love and pain..."

Jessie Redmon Fauset, born on April 27, 1882, was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history.

From 1919 to 1926, Fauset's position as literary editor of The Crisis, allowed her t…