Rose McClendon was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. She was a founder of the Negro People's Theatre, and guided the creation of the Federal Theatre Project's African American theatre units nationwide and briefly co-directed the New York Negro Theater Unit. Rose McClendon was born as Rosalie Virginia Scott in Greenville, South Carolina, […]

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