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	Ruby Dee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an African American actress and activist.
		Ruby Dee and her late husband, actor Ossie Davis, were well-known civil rights activists.
		Dee is a member of such organizations as CORE, the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruby_Dee (381 words)

	Biography: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
		Dee, an alumna of Hunter College, first attracted national attention in 1950 for her performance in The Jackie Robinson Story and broke ground in 1965 as the first fl woman to play lead roles at the American Shakespeare Festival.
		In 1961, Davis wrote and starred with Dee in the acclaimed Purlie Victorious, a satire on the historical and psychological significance of segregation.
		Davis' and Dee's activism has led to their arrest for protesting the killing in New York of a Guinean immigrant, their suing in federal court for fl voting rights, and their speaking out for citizen involvement in democracy and in support of sickle cell disease research.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/200.html (595 words)

	For Ruby Dee, living life is No. 1 \| AccessAtlanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ruby Dee emerges from behind the curtained French doors of the bedroom in her downtown Ritz-Carlton suite, welcomes her guest with a broad smile and happily announces she's ready to talk.
		Actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (shown at the Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner in Atlanta in 1999) were married for 56 years.
		Dee nestles into a cushioned chair and, for more than 90 minutes, talks about the Atlanta Film Festival and her latest big-screen venture, the Sundance-winning, made-in-New Zealand "No. 2," which screens June 10 and June 11 at the fest, and more — much more.
	www.accessatlanta.com /news/content/movies/stories/0610LVrubydee.html (983 words)

	Extravagant Crowd \| Ruby Dee
		As a child, Dee became determined to pursue a career in the arts because of the love of music and literature her mother instilled in her.
		Dee and Davis appeared together in their next two plays and were married during a break in their rehearsal schedule.
		Dee has appeared in many popular television mini series and made-for-TV movies and she continues to appear in popular films, as well as documentaries about prominent African Americans, including the controversial director Spike Lee.
	beinecke.library.yale.edu /cvvpw/gallery/dee1.html (580 words)

	The HistoryMakers
		Almost a lifelong New Yorker, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace October 27, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Her family soon moved to New York and Ruby was raised during the golden age of Harlem.
		Dee and her husband are authors, storytellers and recording artists as well as actors.
	www.thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=719 (471 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Ruby Dee
		Ruby Dee African-American stage, film, and TV luminary Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland.
		In addition to her acting credits, Ruby Dee is an accomplished writer; she has contributed a weekly column to New York's Amsterdam News, co-authored the script for the 1967 film "Up Tight!", penned the 1975 TV play Twin-Bit Gardens, and published a book of poetry, Glowchild (1972).
		Ruby was already an accomplished actor when Ossie met her; she would also become a noted writer and producer.
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	Ruby Dee sparkles in onstage performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Both Dee and Davis have always been seen as notorious movers and shakers when it comes to the African American struggle within the arts, and society as a whole.
		"(Ruby Dee) has always been a fighter for more parts for African Americans and a true America being represented on the stage, not just fls and whites, but Asians and Latinos and certainly Native Americans," said Robinson, who welcomes any students outside her theater classes to join Dee at the Canon.
		For Dee, "My One Good Nerve" represents an attempt to cope in a world with a questionable value system, where though the causes may change, the need for activism is still prevalent.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /DB/issues/99/05.20/ae.ruby.html (1253 words)

	Euphoriette
		Led by singer/songwriter Ruby Dee, a veteran of various San Fran and LA punk rock bands, and backed by Harada, acoustic guitarist and backup singer Liz Smith, bassist Pete Smith, and drummer Lewis Warren, The Snake Handlers have been shaking Seattle from its heart to its heels for the last three years.
		Ruby Dee spent time and wrote songs in Mexican Death Holiday (eventually opening for Perry Farrells' Jane's Addiction); Vortex, with members of the former Dead Boys; Marc Olsen, formerly of the band Sage; in a project called Still; and with Seattle honky-tonk legend Gerald Collier.
		Ruby Dee, halfway to the bar, gets swept up in a stranger's arms for a two-step.
	www.disheveledmag.com /jan_06/features_music/rubydee.shtml (925 words)

	Morning Edition: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis
		Individually, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are groundbreaking entertainers and social activists.
		Davis and Dee met on Broadway in the 1946 production of Jeb and went on to make their film debut together in 1950 in No Way Out.
		The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award follows a series of landmark honors for Davis and Dee, including the National Medal of Arts in 1995 and the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2001/mar/010309.davisdee.html (374 words)

	Ruby Dee - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		African-American stage, film, and TV luminary Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, the daughter of a Pullman-porter father and schoolteacher mother.
		Ruby De Miel (Actress, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984))...
		Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, though she grew up in Harlem,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/ruby-dee/18243/main (147 words)

	Ruby Dee Biography (Actor/Writer/Activist) — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ruby Dee has been a star of stage and screen since her 1946 Broadway debut in Anna Lucasta.
		Extra credit: In 2004 Dee and Davis were honored by the Kennedy Center for their contributions to the performing arts in America...
		Ruby Dee - Ruby Dee (Ruby Ann Wallace) actress Born: 10/27/1924 Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio Emmy Award-winning...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/rubydee.html (295 words)

	Ruby Dee News
		Award-winning actress and author Ruby Dee joined the Chronic Illness Coalition today in Detroit to encourage senior and disabled members of the African American community to learn more about Medicare's new...
		Award-winning actress and author Ruby Dee was in Philadelphia today to speak about the new Medicare prescription drug coverage and encourage members of the African American community to learn more about the new...
		Ruby Dee, one of the pioneering African-American stars of stage and screen, will be in Syracuse Monday to receive a Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievement from Syracuse University.
	www.topix.net /who/ruby-dee (713 words)

	Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers - Seattle Rockin' Honky-Tonk!
		Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers - Seattle Rockin' Honky-Tonk!
		When this rock-solid Americana outfit won "Favorite local band or artist" last year, we wrote: "Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers make a sweet honky-tonk country racket that's perfect for long road trips, lazy afternoons and jumpin' and jivin' at the corner bar." Today, we believe may have underestimated the band a bit.
		Judging from the fervent anticipation that the band's Conrad Uno-produced debut album "North of Bakersfield" is generating, Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers may soon leap from the corner bar to the national stage.
	www.rubydeemusic.com /index.shtml (523 words)

	Collectors Post - RUBY DEE Biography
		Ruby Dee was born in 1924 and brought up in Harlem.
		In the mid-1940s, she was performing with the American Negro Theatre and, in 1946, made a spectacular Broadway debut in Anna Lucasta.
		She and her husband have also worked tirelessly for many civil rights groups and, in 1989, were both inducted into the NAACP image award Hall of Fame.
	collectorspost.com /Actors/ruby_dee.html (179 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Ruby Dee \| PBS
		The U.S. actress Ruby Dee was the first fl woman to appear in major roles at the American Shakespeare Festival, in Stratford, Conn. She was born Ruby Ann Wallace on Oct. 27, 1924, in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Harlem.
		Dee won an Obie award for her work in Boesman and Lena in 1971 and a Drama Desk award for Wedding Band in 1973.
		She wrote two volumes of poetry and with her husband was active in the American civil rights movement for many years.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/ruby_dee.html (229 words)

	Ruby Dee Photos - Ruby Dee News - Ruby Dee Information
		Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio.
		They moved to Harlem in New York City when Ruby was a baby.
		Little Bill is very proud if his painting of a spring day, with flowers and trees in a park, but when Kiku tries to get a closer look, she accidentally...
	www.tv.com /ruby-dee/person/5624/summary.html (217 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Interview with Ruby Dee
		Dee was the female lead's understudy on Jeb, and vividly recalls the first stirrings of emotion, watching the Georgia-born Davis on stage.
		According to Dee, the genesis of Purlie was a childhood experience Davis had, his initiation to life as a colored man in the deep South.
		Dee after her spouse's death and get a sense that she is still strong and filled with purpose.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/07/11/142534.php (2353 words)

	Ruby Dee Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Unlike in many cases, Dee was tapped to recreate the role in the 1961 film, for which she earned stellar reviews.
		Dee had perhaps one of her best career roles as the centenarian physician Bessie Delany in the TV production "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" (CBS, 1999).
		She and Davis were honored in 1970 with the Frederick Douglass Award from New York's Urban League and in 2001 with a joint lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/198226 (997 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ruby Dee has appeared in more than 20 films, and her notable stage appearances include roles in A Raisin in the Sun (she later reprised her performance as Ruth in the 1961 film), and Genet's The Balcony.
		In the cast was the young Ruby Dee, a graduate of Hunter College, who, like Davis, started her career in Harlem and was now also making her Broadway debut.
		Through their company, Emmalyn Enterprises, they produced the 1986 PBS special "Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum." Also for PBS, they created the 1980-82 series "With Ossie and Ruby," and produced "A Walk Through the Twentieth Century with Bill Moyers" in 1984.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=12124&source_type=A (785 words)

	Ruby Dee @ Filmbug
		Ruby Dee is considered to be one of America's finest actresses, with extensive credits in feature films, on television and on the stage.
		She made her feature film debut in 1950 in No Way Out, which led to subsequent roles in such films as A Raisin in the Sun, Purlie Victorious, The Balcony, The Jackie Robinson Story, St. Louis Blues, Take a Giant Step, Cat People and Up Tight.
		Tell us what you think of Ruby Dee in the Filmbug forum...
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	Ruby Dee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Like other African American actors of her generation, Ruby Dee's reach extended beyond the realm of stage and screen.
		Living in the spotlight during this nation's most turbulent times, her career afforded her the opportunity to engage in artistic, political, and philosophical discourse with the potent personalities she encountered along the way.
		It's like when I would read books for books on tape recordings, one of the producers told me, "Ruby, we seldom find a reader who can do the voices of the men as well as the women." All those voices are in me, and I really don't know where they come from.
	www.sonatabooks.com /ruby_dee.htm (3177 words)

	Ruby Dee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since I've been doing some playing with Rails, I figured I might as well start learning the language that backs it up - Ruby.
		So it was fun to do, which is always good for a language.
		I don't think Ruby's got the same level of module support that CPAN provides for Perl, but it might be worth me checking out for projects that might otherwise go to Perl by default.
	www.lunenburg.org /wade/articles/2006/02/16/ruby-dee (200 words)

	Ruby Dee
		During the run of "Saint Lucy's Eyes" at the Alliance Theatre, Ruby Dee's dressing room was a beehive of well-wishers and surprise guests.
		Coretta Scott King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, was among those who came to see the drama, set in Memphis on the night of her husband's assassination.
		"She seemed to like the play," says Dee's daughter, Nora Davis Day, who said her famous mother and father (actor Ossie Davis) have been close to the King family for years.
	www.fhyea.org /celebruby.htm (647 words)

	Ruby Dee
		Esteemed stage, film and TV actress whose petite stature and gentle and genteel manner often mask her characters' inner strength and determination.
		Dee came out of the famed American Negro Theatre in Harlem with such colleagues as Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte with whom she has often worked.
		She first appeared with future husband and frequent co-star Ossie Davis (they married in 1948) in the Broadway production "Jeb" (1946) and subsequently won acclaim on Broadway as Ruth Younger, the quiet, supportive wife in Lorraine Hansberry's ground-breaking family drama "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959; and recreated the role in the 1961 film)....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/198226 (504 words)

	Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee—Life in the American theatre
		Married for 54 years, Davis and Dee were in Bloomington to deliver the keynote address for the Jan. 18 dedication of IU's long-awaited Theatre/Neal-Marshall Center, which houses both the Department of Theatre and Drama and the Black Culture Center.
		In 1995, Davis and Dee were celebrated as "national treasures" when they received the National Medal of Arts, and in 2000, they received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award.
		• Ruby Dee would like to have talked with her grandmothers and with Zora Neale Hurston
	www.homepages.indiana.edu /020102/text/conversations.html (250 words)

	Ruby Dee Current Month TV Schedule
		Starring Burt Reynolds, Ruby Dee, Norman D Golden II, Holland Taylor, Ray Sharkey, Sammy Hernandez, Frank Sivero.
		Starring Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, John Turturro, John Savage, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, Paul Benjamin.
		Starring Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Anthony Quinn.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/rubydee.html (590 words)

	Ruby Dee Movies @ Filmbug
		Movies on DVD with or related to Ruby Dee.
		With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
		Click here for region 2 encoded Ruby Dee DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
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	Ruby Dee (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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