. . "Davis, Ossie" . _:b7iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b7iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 _:b8iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b7iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b8iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b8iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "Davis, Ossie" . "1001 $aDavis, Ossie" . _:b13iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b13iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b13iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "PS3507.A7444" . _:b13iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . . . . . . . . . . . "Davis, Ossie" . "1917-12-18"^^ . "2005-02-04"^^ . _:b34iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b34iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b34iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . . "Howard University" . _:b34iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . . 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"The Black cinema" . . . "The cardinal" . . . "The Cardinal" . . . "The client" . . . "The Hill" . . . "The name of the game. The third choice" . . . "The union democracy built" . . . "The Zulu and the Zayda" . . . "Tough poems for tough people" . . . "Tough poems for tough people" . . . "Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Up from slavery" . . . "Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Up from slavery" . . . "X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 The autobiography of Malcolm X" . . "n 82059429" . "(OCoLC)oca00756309" . _:b384iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b384iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b384iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "His Purlie victorious, c1961." . _:b384iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "found" . _:b390iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b390iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b390iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "LEXIS/NEXIS, Sept. 3, 1997: Celebrity bios, c1997" . _:b390iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "(Davis, Ossie; actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author; b. Dec. 18, 1917; Cogdell, GA; married actress Ruby Dee in 1948; 1961, wrote and starred in Broadway play, \"Purlie Victorious\")" . _:b390iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "found" . _:b398iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b398iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b398iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "National Public Radio (NPR) WWW site, Feb. 4, 2005:" . _:b398iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "(Ossie Davis, 87, actor, activist; d. Feb. 4, 2005, Miami, Fla.)" . _:b398iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "found" . _:b406iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b406iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b406iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:" . _:b406iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "(Davis, Ossie; Raiford Chatman Davis; his name \"Ossie\" came from a clerk's misunderstanding the pronunciation of the initials \"R. C.\" when recording his birth; stage / screen actor, television actor, motion picture producer / director, dramatist, community activist, civil rights activist); born 18 December 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, United States; attended Howard University; in 1942 the World War II draft relocated him to Liberia in West Africa, where he served the military for three years as a surgical technician; in 1946 made his Broadway debut; he not only achieved professional succes, but also visible activism for civil rights working with the Congress of Racial Equality, serving as a host for the March on Washington, and giving the eulogy at the funeral of Malcolm X; died 04 February 2005 in Miami, Florida, United States)" . _:b406iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "found" . _:b414iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b414iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b414iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:" . _:b414iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "(Davis, Ossie; stage/ screen actor, television actor, motion picture producer/ director, dramatist, community activist, civil rights activist; born 18 December 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, United States; studied at Howard University, in Washington, D.C for four years; appeared in four plays (1939-1941); performed in fifteen plays (1948-1957); received a Tony Award nomination for Jamaica (1958); finished playwriting class at Columbia University (1947); his play Purlie Victorious (1961) was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical (9170); film and television work began with the film No Way Out (1950); appeared in more than a hundred films- A Man Called Adam (1966), Malcolm X (1992); starred in numerous television dramas and miniseries- Roots (1979), King (1978); wrote three children's books; winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award; directed his first film Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); founded his own production company with his wife- Emmalyn II Productions Company; Davis and his wife received the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle Award (1994); was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton (1995); received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award (2000); died 04 February 2005 in Miami, Florida, United States)" . _:b414iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "found" . _:b422iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b422iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b422iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "1982-05-27T00:00:00"^^ . _:b422iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "new"^^ . _:b422iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b422iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b430iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b430iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b430iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "2023-05-03T06:45:38"^^ . _:b430iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 "revised"^^ . _:b430iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 . _:b430iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesn82059429 .