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Jun 12, 2014 · Born Ruby Ann Wallace in the early 1920s in Cleveland, actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee most identified with the part of New York City where she was raised. "I don't know who I would be ...
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 13, 2014 · Ruby Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis, were, in real life, deeply involved in the civil rights movement. They were friends with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
Jun 13, 2014 · Born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Dee made her New York stage debut in 1940, at 17, in On Strivers Row at the American Negro Theatre. She appeared in three more ANT productions while earning her ...
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 ...
Jun 13, 2014 · Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922, and moved to New York’s Harlem as a child. She took the surname Dee after marrying blues singer Frankie Dee two decades later.
With her husband, Ms. Dee produced several television specials, including Today is Ours, Martin Luther King: The Dream & The Drum, and two segments of A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers. They also co-produced the television series With Ossie & Ruby, which aired for three seasons. In 1980, Ms. Dee and Mr. Davis founded their own ...
