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Jessie Redmon Fauset  (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.    Fauset was the literary editor of the  NAACP  magazine  The Crisis . She also was the editor and co-author for the African-American children's magazine  The Brownies' Book . She studied the teachings and beliefs of  W.E.B Du Bois  and considered him to be her mentor. Fauset was known as one of the most intelligent women novelists of the  Harlem Renaissance , earning her the name "the midwife". In her lifetime she wrote four novels as well as poetry and short fiction. Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in  Camden County, New Jersey . She was the daughter of Redmon Fauset, an  African Methodist Episcopal  minister, and Annie Seamon Fauset. Jessie's mother died when she was a child and her father remarried. Fauset came from a large family mired in poverty. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls, an...

       Arthur M. Brown was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1867. His grandmother was one of that city's early public school teachers, and his parents made sure that he received a good education.        At age 24, Brown first opened his medical practice in Bessemer, Alabama, later moving to Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois before establishing himself as a surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama in 1894. Dr. Brown was involved in a variety of civic activities, including service as chairman of the Alabama Prison Improvement Board. His wife, Nellie, also served her community as a case worker for the Children's Aid Society.        When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Brown organized a company of infantrymen and offered the group's service to the Alabama governor. Although his group was not activated, Brown was commissioned a First Lieutenant and served as a surgeon in Santiago, Cuba throughout the war.   ...