Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Dee was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including two Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1995, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2000, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.Dee started her career with the American Negro Theatre. She made her Broadway debut in ''South Pacific'' (1943). She met her future husband working together on the play ''Jeb'' (1946). She originated the Broadway roles of Ruth Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (1959) and reprised the role in the 1961 film and Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins in the Ossie Davis play ''Purlie Victorious'' (1961) and reprised the role in the 1963 film.
She made her film debut in ''That Man of Mine'' (1946) before landing a leading roles in films such as ''The Jackie Robinson Story'' (1950), ''Edge of the City'' (1957), ''Take a Giant Step'' (1959), and ''Buck and the Preacher'' (1972). She also acted in the Ossie Davis film ''Black Girl'' (1972), and the Spike Lee films ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989) and ''Jungle Fever'' (1991). For her performance in ''American Gangster'' (2007), Dee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
Dee received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in ''The Doctors and the Nurses'' (1964) and ''Decoration Day'' (1990). She was nominated for her other roles in ''Roots: The Next Generations'' (1979), ''Lincoln'' (1988), ''China Beach'' (1990), and ''Evening Shade'' (1993). She also acted in ''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' (1979), ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1982), ''Go Tell It on the Mountain'' (1985), ''The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson'' (1990), and ''The Stand'' (1994). She voiced Alice the Great in the Nick Jr. series ''Little Bill'' from 1999 to 2004. Provided by Wikipedia
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My one good nerve / by Dee, Ruby
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My one good nerve : rhythms, rhymes, reasons / by Dee, Ruby
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Life lit by some large vision : selected speeches and writings / by Davis, Ossie
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With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / by Davis, Ossie
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With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / by Davis, Ossie
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To be a slave by Lester, Julius, 1939-2018
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To make a poet black the best poems of Countee Cullen / by Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
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The poetry of Langston Hughes by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
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What if I am a woman?
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Sizwe Bansi is dead by Fugard, Athol
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Counting on democracy /
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Do the right thing
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Counting on democracy /
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Freedom never dies - the legacy of Harry T. Moore
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A Raisin in the sun
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The member of the wedding / by McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967
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Roots of resistance a story of the underground railroad /
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A raisin in the sun by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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For my people the life and writing of Margaret Walker /
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