Rose McClendon

American actress (1884-1936) Date Of Birth : 1884-08-27T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1936-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rose McClendon (August 27, 1884 – July 12, 1936) was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. A founder of the Negro People’s Theatre, she guided the creation of the Federal Theatre Project’s African American theatre units nationwide and briefly co-directed the New York Negro Theater Unit.

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