#ruby dee

[tyger-land]

Spike Lee's 𝗗𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 1989

[leatherhearted]

Ruby Dee in THE TALL TARGET (1951, dir. Anthony Mann)

[bookends-theme]

Ruby Dee and John Cassavetes in Edge of the city

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin, Odetta Holmes, Ralph Ellison, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, 1963.

In 1963, Ossie and Ruby Davis, James Baldwin, John O. Killens, Odetta, and Louis Lomax formed the Association of Artists for Freedom, which called for a Christmas boycott to protest the church bombing, and asked that, instead of buying gifts, people make Christmas contributions to civil rights organizations.

[citizenscreen]

Legendary artists and a legendary marriage that lasted six decades. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Edge of the City (1957)?

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Voting ended onMar 14

[forever70s]

husband & wife Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (civil rights activists, actors, and filmmakers) in a 1970 photo by Joseph Tritsch

[silver-screen-divas]

Ruby Dee