Rose Leary Love
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December 30, 1898
Rose Leary Love | |
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| Born | Rose Graham Leary December 30, 1898 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | June 2, 1969 (aged 70) Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, writer |
| Father | John Sinclair Leary |
| Relatives | Lewis Sheridan Leary (uncle) Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston (aunt) |
Rose Graham Leary Love (December 30, 1898 – June 2, 1969) was an American educator and writer. She wrote poems and stories for children, edited a collection of folklore for children, and wrote a memoir of growing up in Brooklyn, a now-lost Black neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Leary was from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina,[1] the daughter of John Sinclair Leary and Nannie Latham Leary. Her father was a lawyer[2] and state legislator, the second Black man admitted to the North Carolina bar during Reconstruction; he was also dean of the law department at Shaw University. Her mother was a teacher.[3] Her uncle Lewis Sheridan Leary worked with abolitionist John Brown, and was killed in the raid at Harpers Ferry;[4] through his widow, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, she was related to writers Carrie Langston Hughes and Langston Hughes.[5] She graduated from Barber-Scotia Seminary and Johnson C. Smith University.[6] She earned her teaching certificate in 1917.[7]
Career
Love taught at schools in Greensboro and Charlotte from 1925 to 1964.[8] She wrote plays and musicals for her students, and published poetry, stories, and magazine articles. Love's stories "present the healthy and stable lives of children, particularly through farm life, as a means for finding value in the characteristics of Southern black communities."[1] She contributed to The Brownies' Book, a short-lived literary magazine for children.[9] She spent a year teaching in Indonesia while her husband was working there as a technical advisor. She was also a church organist and choir director.[3][10] She taught summer methods courses for primary school teachers at Livingstone College.[11]