Celebrating Black History: Cicely Tyson

Posted on March 9, 2021

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Click here to watch Cicely Tyson, an award-winning actor who died recently at age 96, in the final scene from a film of Ernest Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Tyson plays a character whose life story begins in slavery and ends over 100 years later in a symbolic triumph over the Jim Crow laws in the 1960s.

This video was submitted by Mr. Scandling

Who has inspired you? We will continue to celebrate Black History throughout the rest of the term; the OICL Task Force invites you to share or film a short video about someone who is important to you. Please send your submission to OICL and Ms. White with a short introduction to the video and/or the person featured in it, and we’ll include it in a future Bulletin post!

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