Zelma Watson George

Zelma Watson George was an African-American philanthropist who was famous for being an alternate in the United Nations General Assembly and, as a headliner in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium, the first African American to play a role that was typically played by a white actress.

8 December 1903

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