Talk:Crystal Bird Fauset

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 January 2020 and 3 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cjung10. Peer reviewers: Cdaless1.

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Adding new content
Hello to other editors, In the next few days, I intend to add new content and citations to most of the sections in this Wiki entry, as well as breaking up the entry into more sections. I will start by expanding the Lead and correcting Fauset's birth year from 1894 to 1893 (cited). Cjung10 (talk) 02:52, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * The next way to improve the article is by expanding Fauset's early life section, and writing a few lines about her work with the Works Progress Administration, which was one of her first political roles. Cjung10 (talk) 02:59, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I also intend to expand more on her work with the AFSC, the Pennsylvania state legislature, and the OCD. Also, it might be beneficial to add a sub-heading on her life between 1928-1937 (between the AFSC and state legislature election) under the "Professional Life" section. In these years, she worked at Swarthmore and the Works Progress Administration and began organizing for the Democratic Party. Cjung10 (talk) 05:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Paywall Issues for Sources
Hello, I plan to use some new sources when adding to the Wiki article, but unfortunately many of them do not have public online access. Some show a preview/abstract of the source, but then the rest is '''behind a paywall. While I have access through my university, Wikipedia readers may not. Has anyone encountered this issue, and how did you resolve it?'''

These are some of the new sources without online access:

1. Smith, Eric Ledell. “Crystal Bird Fauset Raises Her Vote for Human Rights.” Pennsylvania Heritage, 13, no. 1 (Winter 1997):34-49.

2. Austin, Allan W. “‘Lets Do Away with Walls!": The American Friends Service Committee's Interracial Section and the 1920s United States.” Quaker History, vol. 98, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1–34. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41947666.

3. Allen, Holly. Forgotten Men and Fallen Women: The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives. 1 ed. Cornell University Press, 2015. This was accessible through the "Project MUSE" database.

4. McGuire, John Thomas (2012-11-12). "Working within the Labyrinth of Race". Journal of Urban History. 39 (2): 172–192. doi:10.1177/0096144212465264. ISSN 0096-1442. This has an abstract that's available publicly, but not the full text

'''In the future, these sources may have fuller public access, so I will leave them here in that case. What are other editors' thoughts and solutions?'''

Cjung10 (talk) 03:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Here are links to some more archive sites that may contain information. These ones I did not have any access to, but were cited in other used works (Smith, Eric Ledell, "Crystal Bird Fauset Raises Her Voice...").

https://archive.org/details/blackwomeninamer00hine/page/10

https://archive.org/details/notableblackamer00jess/page/26

Cjung10 (talk) 04:21, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"?
To future editors:

In some modern sources, Fauset is written as a member of Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet" (an informal group of African American community leaders and politicians who acted as advisers). But in other sources (scholarly journals, encyclopedias), the "Black Cabinet" isn't mentioned in Fauset's biography, and on the Wikipedia page for the "Black Cabinet," it lists that there was only one woman, Mary Mcleod Bethune. Even the same source contradicts itself whether Fauset is considered a member or not (see source "Chapter 2: Setbacks and Advances - African-Americans Discover the Power of the Vote." on Fauset's page).

Altogether, this may come down to historical interpretation and will need further research. An upcoming book is Jill Watt's "The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt" in May 2020. This may be a good source to add in the future??

Cjung10 (talk) 16:13, 20 April 2020 (UTC)