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Beah Richards
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Died just days after receiving Emmy award for
The Practice (1997)
, which was accepted for her by
LisaGay Hamilton
and delivered to Vicksburg.
One of her poems, "Keep Climbing, Girls", has been turned into a picture book inspiring girls' power. Published 2006 by Simon & Schuster.
For her work on the legitimate stage, she was honored with the Paul Robeson Pioneer Award and was inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.
1948: Graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans.
Father was a Baptist minister and mother a seamstress.
Married for three years to an African-American sculptor.
Stage: Appeared in
James Baldwin
's "The Amen Corner" on Broadway in 1965, for which she received a Tony nomination as Best Actress (Dramatic).
She was a lifelong liberal Democrat and a Civil Rights activist.
In 1967, she appeared in two films with
Sidney Poitier
:
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
and
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
, for which she received an Oscar nomination.
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