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Tyson, Cicely

LC control no.n 81069264
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Personal name headingTyson, Cicely
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1924-12-19
Death date2021-01-28
Place of birthEast Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityActing
Profession or occupationActresses
Found inData from Time-Life Video for Tools of writing [VR] 1981 (a.e.) (Cicely Tyson; African American actress)
Wikipedia, Feb. 22, 2019 (born December 19, 1924; A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Tyson>
African American women, 1993: pages 521-523 (Cicely Tyson, born in East Harlem, New York to Caribbean immigrant parents. Became a model then a stage, movie, and television actress.)
nytime.com, January 28, 2021 (Cicely Tyson, an Actress Who Shattered Stereotypes, Dies at 96)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/obituaries/cicely-tyson-dead.html>
Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 1, 2021 (in obituary dated Jan. 28, 2021: Cicely Tyson, an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black womenbrought some of the first ennobling portrayals of African Americans to a vast television audience, died Jan. 28 at 96)
Associated languageeng