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July 18, 2023 1 min
#OTD Emmy Award winning actress Beah Richards was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Recording artist Jamie Jones celebrates her life and legacy.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, This is Jamie Jones from the group All for
One This Day in Quistory. Actress Baye Richards is born
in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the only child of a seamstress mother
and a Baptist minister father. Richards attended Dillard University in
New Orleans. Her first on stage role came in nineteen
fifty six, playing a grandmother in the off Broadway play

(00:26):
Take a Giant Step.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
In the sixties, she starred in the A Man Corner,
which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Actress as
well as a Theater World Award.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
She earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as
Sidney Poitier's mother in the late nineteen sixty seventh film
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Richards also played in numerous
television roles on series such as The Cosby Show, Sanford
and Son, Frank's Place, and The Practice. She won Emmys
in nineteen eighty eight and in two thousand for her

(00:59):
performance in Frank's.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Place and The Practice, respectively.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Richard's second Inmy was awarded just days before her passing
on September fourteenth, two thousand,
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