February 15, 2021 – 16:02
Many in the multigenerational crowd carried photos of Tyson, who died on January 28. The New York-born actress was 96 years old
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NEW YORK.- Admirers came from different parts of the country and waited in a long line to pay tribute to Cicely Tyson in a public ceremony of body present this Monday.
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Hundreds of followers of the iconic actress African-American people lined up outside Harlem’s famous Abyssinian Baptist Church one cold morning. Some said they had traveled from as far away as Atlanta or Los Angeles to be there.
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Many in the multigenerational crowd carried photos of Tyson, who died on January 28. The New York-born actress was 96 years old.
His family said that it was necessary to wear masks and maintain social distancing at the ceremony.
Tyson was the first African-American woman to have a recurring role in an American drama television series: “East Side, West Side,” 1963.
Her performance as the wife of a sharecropper in the 1972 film “Sounder” cemented her stardom and earned her an Oscar nomination.
She received two Emmy Awards for playing a 110-year-old ex-slave in the 1974 television drama “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” and another 20 years later for “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.”
At 88 he won a Tony Award for his work on a 2013 revival of Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful”.
President Barack Obama awarded her the Medal of Freedom in 2016.
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