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REMEMBERING - AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH - Actor Ozzie Davis

Remembering is a way of keeping alive . . .

Ozzie Davis - Consummate Actor and Committed Civil Rights Advocate

February 4, 2005 · Actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis has died at the age of 87.

Davis wrote, directed and produced for the theater and Hollywood.

A familiar face on stage and screen -- as well as the front lines of the fight against racial injustice.

Davis was working on location in Miami, Fla. making a new film, Retirement. The 87-year-old actor and his wife, Ruby Dee, also worked to fight racial discrimination.
Davis & Dee: Partners On and Off the Screen
March 9, 2001 · In the second part of a conversation, host Bob Edwards talked to actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee about their price they've paid for their political activism and how they've been able to reconcile their personal and professional lives during 52 years of marriage. They also talk about the 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, and their appearances in Spike Lee's movies Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever. Davis and Dee say they'll be honored Sunday night to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

November 8, 2004 · NPR's Tavis Smiley talked with screen and stage actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In the first of a two-part conversation, the couple talked about their 55 years of marriage, why they continue to perform and their upcoming Kennedy Center Honors.

He is survived by his wife of more than 55 years, the actress Ruby Dee.

Gone but definitely REMEMBERED!!!!!11