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Ruby Dee: Media

American actress

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A Raisin in the Sun
A scene from the film adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun (1961), directed...
Copyright © 1969 Columbia Pictures Corporation; all rights reserved.
Ruby Dee
Dee broke color barriers in Shakespearan theater and prime-time television.
Carl Van Vechten Estate/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-102155
A Raisin in the Sun
(From left) Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands in A Raisin...
© 1961 Columbia Pictures Corporation
Kennedy Center Honors
Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, first lady Laura Bush and Pres. George W. Bush during the...
© Win McNamee/Getty Images