Cicely Tyson, Groundbreaking Award-Winning Actor, Dies At 96
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropperβs wife in βSounder,β a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewersβ hearts in βThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,β died Thursday at age 96.
