Happy Birthday, Ossie!
Ossie Davis, actor, playwright, and civil rights activist, was born today in Cogdell, Georgia. Among his plays are Paul Robeson: All American, Escape to Freedom, and Purlie Victorious. He also wrote Just Like Martin and Life Lit by Some Large Vision. In 2004 he and his wife Ruby Dee were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.
(note: I had erroneously credited him with co-authoring Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.)
2 Comments:
Ossie Davis is a great man and worth celebrating, but he did not co-author A Raisin in the Sun. He acted in the play (with his wife Ruby Dee who played Ruth Younger) after Sidney Poitier left his originating role as Walter Lee Younger.
Hmmm. You are completely correct. My source ran the actors' names in the same line as the author. Fixed.
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