Fauset, Crystal Dreda Bird, 1893-1965

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, for Dawson, W. Papers, 1942-1972(Crystal Bird Fauset; correspondent)

found: Notable black Am. women, c 1992(Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset; b. 1893; d. 1965; state legislator, community leader, race relations specialist, of Penn.; first black woman in Am. to be elected to a state legislature; dau., Portia E. (Lovett) and Benjamin Bird; wife, Arthur Huff Fauset)

found: African American women, 1993:pages 179-180 (Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset, 1893-1965. Born Crystal Dreda Bird in Princess Anne, Maryland on June 27. Lived with her aunt in Boston, then taught school for three years before becoming the field secretary for the national board of the YWCA. Earned a BS from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1931. Helped develop the Swarthmore College Institute of Race Relations in 1933, later being appointed as the assistant director of the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration. Won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives where she served from 1938 until 1939. Later lived in New York City. Died in Philadelphia on March 28, 1965.)