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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1961). Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in the stage production The Blacks [Photograph]. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d41ea840-4393-0133-c92f-00505686a51c
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December 19, 1924, New York, NY
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January 28, 2021 (age 96), New York, NY
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Miles Davis (m. 1981-1989), Kenneth Franklin (m. 1942-1956)
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
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*some sources say April 6, 1845
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