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Tribute to Ruby Dee - The Legendary Actress and Civil Rights Activist image Legendary actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee - equally at home on Broadway, TV, film or on a protest march, often alongside Ossie Davis, her husband of 56 years - died Wednesday in her New Rochelle home. She was surrounded by family and friends. Her family, including her daughter Nora Davis Day has confirmed that she was 91. As mentioned in abcnews , Dee died of natural causes at her New Rochelle, New York. Dee also battled breast cancer a few decades back, is survived by the three children she had with her late husband, actor Ossie Davis: Guy, Nora Day and Hasna Muhammad. She is always an activist. It is reported in CNN , Dee and Davis - the two, who were married 56 years, always seemed connected - were an odd couple in some ways: She from New York, he from Waycross, Georgia. She was small and stylish, he was big and bluff. But their beliefs were often as one, and they practiced what they prea