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Person · 1922–2014

Ruby Dee

The pioneering actress and civil-rights activist of stage and screen.

A pioneer of [[black-stage]] and activism.

Ruby Dee starred in "A Raisin in the Sun" and decades of film and theater while, with husband Ossie Davis, serving on the front lines of the freedom movement.

On the timeline

  1. March 11, 1959
    "A Raisin in the Sun" opens on Broadway

    Lorraine Hansberry becomes the first Black woman with a play on Broadway.

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