Career
She appeared on radio in The Maxwell House Coffee Hour. She also performed with the Eva Jessye Choir. King was known for the timbre of her contralto voice.
She became a favourite of playwright Langston Hughes, who wrote original material for her.
She costarred in his play Jericho-Jim Crow in 1964. King’s career was cut short by a stroke in the mid-1960s, she recovered but retired from the stage, doing only occasional performances and consultancies in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rosalie King died in Ocala, Florida in 1997.