Her complete name was Ruby Ann Wallace . Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 1922, and grew up in Harlem in New York City. She began acting in high school, and continued at Hunter College. She played on Broadway in 1946, and has acted in movies, plays, radio, and television in a variety of roles, to critical acclaim. Dee has been active in civil rights causes, including being active in the NAACP, SCLC, and CORE. Ruby Dee was married to actor Ossie Davis from 1948 until his death in 2005, and raised three children. Dee died June 11, 2014, at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 91. Ruby Dee Quotes: "You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else’s freedom and not worry about your own." "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity." "The greatest gift is not being afraid to question." "Classism and greed
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