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1. www.findagrave.com › memorial › 6107368Beah Richards (1920-2000) - Find a Grave Memorial

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   Beah Richards. Cremated, Ashes scattered. Specifically: Ashes scattered over the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi Add to Map. Actress. She was an Emmy Award-winning actress of the 1950s to the 1990s.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Beah_RichardsBeah Richards - Wikipedia

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   Richards died from emphysema in her hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi at the age of 80, less than a month after winning an Emmy award. In the last year of her life, Richards was the subject of a documentary created by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton .

4. www.vicksburgpost.com › 2000/09/15 › actress-beahActress Beah Richards dies at 80 - The Vicksburg Post

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   Sep 15, 2000 · Acclaimed actress Beah Richards, whose second Emmy Award was announced Sunday night to an international audience, died Thursday afternoon at her Vicksburg home. She was 80.

5. daily.jstor.org › the-poem-that-inspired-radicalThe Poem That Inspired Radical Black Women to Organize

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   Nov 5, 2020 · Throughout the sweeping poem, Richards connected race, gender, and class for a crowd of 500 women at the Peace Congress. “I speak not mockingly but I fought for freedom, I’m fighting now for our unity. We are women all, and what wrongs you murders me and eventually marks your grave so we share a mutual death at the hand of tyranny.” […]

6. mississippiencyclopedia.org › entries › beah-richardsBeah Richards | Mississippi Encyclopedia

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   Beulah Elizabeth Richardson was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 12 July 1920. Her father, Wesley R. Richardson, was a Baptist minister; her mother, Beulah Molton Richardson, was a seamstress and an advocate of the Parent-Teacher Association. Richards graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans in 1948 and moved to New York City in 1950 to […]

7. www.foundagrave.com › grave › beah-richardsBeah Richards | Found a Grave

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   She was the winner of two Emmy Awards, one in 1988 for her appearance on the series Frank’s Place, and another in 2000 for her appearance on The Practice. Richards was diagnosed with emphysema in 2000. Richards died from emphysema in her hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi at the age of 80.

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   Is Beah Richards a real person?

   • Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, author and activist.

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   Did Beah Richards write a poem influenced the Civil Rights Movement?

   • Beah Richards is best known as an actor, but in 1951 she wrote a sweeping poem that influenced the Civil Rights Movement. Beah Richards in a still from the film, "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.

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   Who did Richards evoke?

   • In the poem, sociologist Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak explains, Richards “evokes early black women activists such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells, rendering their work and calls for freedom and justice pertinent to the issues of the mid-twentieth century.”

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9. www.washingtonpost.com › archive › localEmmy Winner Beah Richards Dies at Age 80 - The Washington Post

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   Sep 16, 2000 · JACKSON, Miss. -- Beah Richards, 80, an actress whose career spanned four decades in films including "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "Beloved" and who received an Emmy Award this year for...