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Jun 12, 2014 · Ruby Dee, an actress who defied segregation-era stereotypes by landing lead roles in movies and on Broadway while maintaining a second high-profile career as a civil rights advocate, including ...
Jun 12, 2014 · Actress Ruby Dee and director Spike Lee attend a special 20th anniversary screening of Do the Right Thing, in New York, in 2009. Dee died Wednesday at age 91. Dee died Wednesday at age 91.
Jun 12, 2014 · Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio, television and film, her agent confirmed to CBS News. She was 91. Ruby Dee 1922-2014 28 photos
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Jun 12, 2014 · Actress Ruby Dee has passed away. I met her several times and she was absolutely lovely. — Sunny Hostin (@SunnyHostin) June 12, 2014. #RIP, Ruby Dee. Thank you for paving the way with your ...
Jun 11, 2014 · Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, OH, on Oct. 27, 1924. Just shy of her first birthday, she and her siblings relocated to Harlem with her father and stepmother. Her birthmother, who had a reputation of instability and had given birth to three children while still in her teens, had left her young family to follow a charismatic preacher.
May 29, 2018 · Ruby Dee. 1924—. Actress, civil rights activist, writer. The actress and social activist Ruby Dee expressed her philosophy in I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America: "You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time.
Jun 12, 2014 · Ruby Dee, best known for her role in 1961’s “A Raisin in the Sun” and latterly for her Oscar-nominated turn as Denzel Washington’s mother in 2007’s “American Gangster,” died ...
