Subject Topic: African American actresses - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Her career in acting crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, including the film, A Raisin in the Sun, in which she recreated her stage role as a suffering housewife in the projects. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Emma Louise Hyers in a scene identified in some sources as from "Out of Bondage" and in other sources as from "Urlina, the African Princess." She is seated on a wooden chair draped with fabrics, in front of a painted faux architectural backdrop.
Date:: [circa 1880]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rulopov, Bradley
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of an unidentified actress in Oakland, from Virginia Stephens' estate.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, W. J.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Poster advertising a performance of Carmen De Lavallade at the Back Bay Theatre in Boston, with a photograph of Lavallade in costume in a dance pose.
Date:: 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, founded in 1916 by Noble Johnson, was the first all-black movie production company to make films that showcased African American talent, and the first producer of race movies, limited to African American audiences in churches, schools, and "Colored Only" theaters. It remained in operation until 1923, closing shortly after announcing a final project, The Heart of a Negro.
Date:: [circa 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Sherman Alexander Hemsley was an African American comic actor best known for his role as George Jefferson on the series "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," Deacon Ernest Frye on "Amen," and B.P. Richfield on "Dinosaurs."
Date:: 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Lottie Gee was a singer who performed in London vaudeville and who popularized the songs "Love will find the way" and "I'm just wild about Harry" in the Broadway musical "Shuffle Along."
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Publicity still of American actress Lillian Randolph wearing a maid's costume in the television show 'Beulah.'
Date:: [1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Kisch, John D.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Anne-Marie Johnson is an American actress and impressionist, who has starred in film and on television. She is known for her roles as Nadine Hudson Thomas on "What's Happening Now!!," Aileen Lewis on "Double Trouble," Althea Tibbs on "In the Heat of the Night," and as a cast member on "In Living Color" during its final season.
Date:: 1985
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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