Still from "Gone are the Days!" (aka "Purlie Victorious") with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in a rural setting carrying boxes. 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] Gone Are the Days! was a 1963 American comedy-drama film starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge. It is based on the Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which was written by Davis. Purlie is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South. Its focus is on the dynamic, traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community's church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee's plantation. With the assistance of Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, Purlie hopes to pry loose from Cotchipee an inheritance due his long-lost cousin and use the money to achieve his goals. Ossie Davis was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed. [Wikipedia] Written on back of photo: Photo by Harry Adams (?), Did I buy at a sale at a store (?). Credit: Miriam Matthews
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African American actors Civil rights workers African American actresses Motion picture producers and directors African Americans in the motion picture industry Davis, Ossie Gone are the days (Motion picture : 1963) Dee, Ruby
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