Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 4.62 linear feet (12 boxes)

Summary

1. Ossie Davis (1917-2005) and Ruby Dee (1922-2014) were American actors, writers, and activists whose careers spanned the mediums of theater, film, television, radio, and print. The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee photographs, dating from the 1940s to 2012, chronicle the couple's performing roles, as well as their public life as activists and relationships with colleagues in the arts.

Subject

1. Civil rights activists
2. Actresses
3. Actors
4. Photographs
5. African Americans on television
6. African American theater
7. African American political activists
8. African American motion picture producers and directors
9. African American actresses
10. African American actors
11. Dee, Ruby

Genre/Form

1. Photographs.

Source (note)

1. Purchased from Nora Davis Day and Dr. Hasna Muhammad in 2018.

Author

1. Davis, Ossie, creator.

Title

1. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee photographs.

Production

1. 1940s-2012.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Location of other archival materials

1. Materials Separated from the Resource: Photographs transferred from the Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee papers in Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books, Schomburg Center.

Source

1. Purchased from Nora Davis Day and Dr. Hasna Muhammad in 2018.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Actors.
2. Actresses.
3. Civil rights activists.

Research call number

1. Sc Photo Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Collection