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Ruby Dee, 91, Actress And Civil Rights Activist

PEOPLE Posted: June 12, 2014 11:07 am

Over a seven-decade career in theater, television and film, often in partnership with husband Ossie Davis, she greatly expanded the range of roles black actresses could play in the U.S.; gave landmark performances in Shakespeare and soap opera, Hansberry and Fugard and Spike Lee; picketed theaters that refused to cast her African-American colleagues; and played a high profile in the wider civil rights struggle.

PEOPLE Published: 06.12.14

Read the story in The Washington Post Published: 06.12.14

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