User:Kmblim/Thelma Johnson Streat

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Early life and education
She began painting at the age of seven

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Art work
from the page: "pen and ink drawings, charcoal sketches, mixed media murals, and textile design..."

A year after her high school graduation, Streat had paintings on exhibit at the New York City, New York Public Library under sponsorship of the Oregon Federation of Colored Women and the Harmon Foundation.

Teacher and activist
In 1945, Streat chaired a committee in Chicago to sponsor murals as part of a "Negro in Labor" education movement. ... A second Children's City school was founded on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada in 1956.

(NEW SECTION) Personal life and death
She married Romaine Virgil Streat in 1935, and they divorced in 1948. Streat continued to use her married name for professional purposes. Later that year, she married John Edgar Kline, her manager and a playwright and producer of both theatre and film.

Streat died of a heart attack in 1959, at the age of 47.