Jessie was light-skinned, with features showing some European ancestry. Judging by photographs of his half-sister Jessie Redmon Faust, from his father's first family, both Redmon and his first wife Annie were also mixed race. According to the hypodescent practices of US society, he and his siblings were considered Negro (or Black). Redmon Fauset had seven children from his first marriage, born before his wife Annie (née Seamon) died.Īs a person of known mixed race, Arthur Fauset never identified fully with either of his parents' ethnic groups as a child or adult. Bringing three children from her first marriage, she had converted to Christianity to marry Fauset. He was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and his white wife Bella was born into a Jewish family. His father Redmon Fauset was African American and likely of mixed race. Fauset was born on the 20th of January in 1899 and was the middle child of three children in an interracial family in Flemington, New Jersey.
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