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Fauset, Jessie Redmon: The Gift of Laughter; born at Philadelphia, Pa.; educated in the Philadelphia public schools, Cornell University, A.B., 1905 (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 1921; special courses at the Sorbonne; teacher of French and Latin, Dunbar High School, Washington; Literary Editor of The Crisis, 1920–26. Author of numerous magazine articles, verse and stories; also There is Confusion, a novel, Boni & Liveright, 1924.
Richardson, Willis: Compromise; born Wilmington, N. C., 1889; educated at public schools and Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C.; now engaged in the government clerical service; since 1917 has written numerous one act and larger plays, of which the following have been produced: The Deacon's Awakening, St. Paul, 1921; The Chip Woman's Fortune, by the Chicago Folk Theatre, 1923; Mortgaged, by the Howard Players, 1924, and The Broken Banjo, the Amy Spingarn Prize Play in New York, 1925. Has contributed articles on Negro Drama to Opportunity and The Crisis.
Rogers, James A.: Jazz at Home; journalist and correspondent, on staff of The Messenger and The Amsterdam News, New York. Author: numerous articles and From Superman to Man, Chicago, 1917.
Schomburg, Arthur A.: The Negro Digs Up His Past; born San Juan, Porto Rico; educated public and private schools, and St. Thomas College; came to the United States in 1891, and has since been engaged as law clerk and in business. Author and book collector; president of the American Negro Academy; co-founder of the Negro Society for Historical Research. Author: Phyllis Wheatley, a critical edition, Fred Heartman, New York, 1916; A Check List of American Negro Poetry, New York, 1916, and numerous historical pamphlets and reprints.
Fauset, Arthur Huff: American Negro Folk Lore; born Flemington, N. J., 1899; educated at Philadelphia public schools, the Central High School and the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy, A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1921, A.M., ibid., 1924; has taught since 1918 in the Philadelphia public schools, and has specialized in the study of folk lore, making a research of Nova Scotia folk lore under the auspices of the American Folk Lore Society, 1923, and one in the lower South, especially the Mississippi Delta Region, in the summer of 1925.
Bennett, Gwendolyn B.: Song; born Giddings, Texas; studied at Pratt Institute and Columbia University; taught Design and Water Color at Howard University in Washington, D. C.; Delta Sigma Theta Fellowship to Paris for 1925–26. Contributor to Opportunity, The Crisis and The Messenger.
PART II
Kellogg, Paul Underwood: The Negro Pioneers; born Kalamazoo, Mich., 1879; graduate Kalamazoo High School; special courses Columbia University, 1901–06; Hon. A.M. Amherst, 1911; city editor Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph, 1898–1901; on staff The Survey since 1902; since 1912 editor The Survey and the Survey Graphic; director The Pittsburgh Survey, 1907–08. Editor, Pittsburgh Survey. Joint author with Arthur Gleason, British Labor and the War, 1918.
Johnson, Charles S.: The New Frontage on American Life; born Bristol, Va., 1898; A.B. Virginia Union University, 1916; Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1917, graduate study in social science in Chicago while research investigator of the Chicago Urban League, Associate Executive Secretary of the Chicago Race Relations Commission, compiled material and wrote sections of their report, "The Negro in Chicago," 1921, since 1921, director of Research and
