Ossie Davis Television Credits

Online Transcripts & Interviews

Archive of American Television, Interview with Ossie Davis, 1999
Archive of American Television, Interview with Ruby Dee, 2000
NPR Morning Edition 2001 Interview with Ruby and Ossie
Democracy Now interview with Ossie at anti-war protest, 2003
Ruby with Alicia Keys on Iconoclasts, 2007

Dee-Davis Links

Ossie & Ruby YouTube Channel

Ossie & Ruby’s Family

Guy Davis | Hasna Muhammad and Crumb Navigation | Muta’Ali and Life’s Essentials

Recommended Websites

W.E.B. Du Bois | Sterling Brown | Alain Locke
Marcus Garvey | A. Philip Randolph Exhibit
Moe Foner (Notable New Yorkers)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute | Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Harlem History | Actors’ Equity Timeline
National Memorial Day Concert | Third World Press
African American World | Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Theaters

The Billie Holiday Theatre | Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theatre
National Black Theatre Festival | New Heritage Theatre Group
Crossroads Theatre Company | The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players
Amas Musical Theatre | Black Spectrum Theatre | Ensemble Studio Theatre
NTAR Theatre | National Black Theatre | Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre

Favorite Readings

Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings | edited by Philip Foner
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader | by David Levering Lewis
The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance | by Alain Locke
Here I Stand | by Paul Robeson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X | by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…A Zora Neale Hurston Reader | edited by Alice Walker
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People | by Paule Marshall
To Be Young, Gifted and Black | by Lorraine Hansberry
Letter to My Daughter | by Maya Angelou
Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found | by G. William Jones
The Impact of Race: Theatre and Culture | by Woodie King
Living for Change: An Autobiography | by Grace Lee Boggs
Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation’s Future | by James and Grace Lee Boggs
Not For Bread Alone: A Memoir | by Moe Foner
A Song of Social Significance: Memoirs of an Activist | by Dorothy Epstein
Things Overheard While Talking to Myself | by Alan Alda
You Can’t Do That on Broadway! | by Philip Rose
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood | by Donald Bogle

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