Crystal Bird Fauset

thumb| 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. Quotes 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. Speech at the Women's Centennial Congress, NYC (Nov. 1940); Howard A. Myrick, "Recalling Philadelphia's civil rights figures during Black History Month", Chestnut Hill Local (Feb. 5, 2020) Quotes about Fauset Her greatest aim is to bring to her audience the humanness of the Negro wherever he is found. The American Friends Service Committee (Autumn 1927) quoted in Mary Hoxie Jones, Swords into Ploughshares: An Account of the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1937 (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1937) p. 169 External links Category:Civil rights activists Category:Legislators from the United States Category:Women activists from the United States Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:20th-century African-American women Category:Politicians from Maryland Category:1893 births Category:1965 deaths Category:Women born in the 19th century