Willie Lee Rose

Willie Lee Rose (May 18, 1927 – June 20, 2018) was an American historian. She was a professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of several books about slavery and the Reconstruction Era.

Early life Rose was born as Willie Lee Nichols on May 18, 1927, in Moneta, Virginia. She grew up in Bedford, Virginia.

Rose authored several books about slavery and the Reconstruction Era. She won the Allan Nevins Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and the Troyer Steele Anderson Prize from the American Historical Association in 1991.

Personal life and death Rose married William G. Rose in 1949. He predeceased her in 1985.

Rose died on June 20, 2018, in Baltimore, Maryland, at 91.

Selected works