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HE WAS black and he was American, born in the Deep South to a railroad worker and part-time herb doctor, whose wife carried a pistol in her bosom to protect their five children. So, race was to play a big part in his life, leading him to deliver the eulogies at the funerals of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.
And though Raiford Chatman ("Ossie") Davis became a star of Hollywood and TV, he deplored the way his people, even luminaries like Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, tended to be promoted as the token exceptions, who rose from disadvantage to an uncertain equality.See the full content of this document
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Obituary: Ossie Davis
Raised in the tiny communities of Cogdell and Waycross, Georgia, Davis left ho...
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