On this day in 1924, award-winning actress Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today October 27, 2023 Oct. 27, 1924 Actress Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in the 1940s, she acted on Broadway, in movies and on television, starring alongside Sidney Poitier and others. She and her husband, Ossie Davis, acted together and served as master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington. They were friends with both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Because it is they who urge us to hang on, to join hands, to move relentlessly toward greater understanding among all people, to move toward justice and toward love.” During her career, she won a Grammy, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild Award and Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, she became the second oldest woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie “American Gangster.” She died in 2014.
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