Rose Butler Browne (March 19, 1897 – December 1, 1986) was an American educator, engineer and author of Love My Children.
[1] Her maternal great-grandmother, Charlotte Ann Elizabeth Lindsey, was a daughter of a native American chief who married a southern slave, worked six years to buy his freedom and later migrated to a Boston ghetto to improve the life of their children.
In her autobiography Love My Children, Browne attributed most of her success to the influence of her great-grandmother, called the "High Priestess" by her family.
[2] She moved with her family to Newport, Rhode Island, where she grew up, attending Shiloh Baptist Church.
Returning to Rhode Island, she operated a summer school aimed at the culture gap faced by black children, and later worked with senior citizens.