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- President Swygert's Letter to the Howard University
Community.
Biographical Remembrances
- Remembering
Ossie Davis 1917-2005
- Today's Democracy Now! Remembering Ossie Davis 1917-2005:
Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte, Bill Clinton
Pay Tribute to the Famed Actor & Civil
Rights Activist.
On Saturday thousands of mourners filled Riverside Church in Harlem for the funeral of Ossie Davis. Davis died Feb. 4 while on location for a film in Florida. He was 87 years old. For five decades, Ossie Davis led a distinguished career as an actor, playwright and director. Along with his wife, Ruby Dee, he was a renowned civil rights activist and an unforgettable figure in the African American struggle for equality. Speakers at Saturday's funeral described the event as a state funeral for black America. We hear Harry Belafonte eulogize Ossie Davis as well as tributes from President Bill Clinton, writer Maya Angelou, Malcolm X's daughter Attallah Shabazz, Davis' grandson Brian Day and a musical tribute by jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.
- Ossie Davis, A True Howard Legend, by Ayesha
Rascoe, The Hilltop, Tuesday, February
8, 2005, A1, A5.
- Actor Ossie Davis Dead at 87,
CNN, Friday, February 4, 2005.
- Actor Ossie Davis Dies, by Fred Barbash
and Wil Haygood, Washington Post,
Friday, February 4, 2005.
- Davis Devoted His Life and His Work to Civil
Rights, by Steve Jones, USA TODAY,
posted 2/4/2005, updated 2/6/2005.
- Actor, Activist Ossie Davis Dies at 87,
National Public Radio, February 5, 2005.
- US Actor Ossie Davis Found Dead, BBC, Saturday,
5 February, 2005.
- Actor, Activist Ossie Davis Dies at 87,
The Associated Press, February 5, 2005.
- Ossie
Davis, A Special Actor and Author,
The African American Registry.
- Groundbreaking
Actor Was the Voice for a Movement,
Detroit Free Press, February 5, 2005.
Filmography, Interviews, and Remarks
- Ossie Davis' Filmography
- A
Visit with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee,
Indiana University, January 18, 2002.
- Interview
with Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, NPR
Morning Edition, March 2001.
- Ossie
Davis Closes MLK Symposium with Call
for Action, University of Michigan,
February 11, 2002.
- Keynote
Remarks by Ossie Davis, Indiana University,
January 12, 2002.
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