Editing Ruby Dee (section)

== Early life and education ==
Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace on October 27, 1922, in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]],<ref name="90th">[http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ruby-gem-90-article-1.1201556 "Ruby Dee marks 90th birthday with new documentary about her illustrious life with late husband Ossie Davis"], ''[[New York Daily News]]'', November 13, 2012.</ref> the daughter of Gladys ([[née]] Hightower) and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a cook, waiter and porter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackpast.org/aah/davis-ruby-dee-1924 |title=Dee, Ruby Ann Wallace (1924-2014) |last=Watson |first=Elwood |date= December 5, 2013|website=BlackPast.org |access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref> After her mother left the family, Dee's father remarried, to Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Ossie|author2=Dee, Ruby|year=1998|chapter=Ruby Is Born at Seven|title=With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together|publisher=William Morrow|isbn=0-688-17582-1|chapter-url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/davis-ossie.html|access-date=July 30, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gates|first=Henry Louis|title=Arts and Letters: An A-To-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience|publisher=Running Press|year=2005|isbn=0-7624-2042-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_FhqCO4RJl8C&q=%22ruby+dee%22+%22marshall+edward+wallace%22&pg=PA167}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lyman|first=Darryl|title=Great African-American Women|publisher=Jonathan David Company, Inc.|year=2005|isbn=0-8246-0459-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4-HYBUp1sygC&q=%22ruby+dee%22+%22marshall+edward+wallace%22&pg=PA53}}</ref>

Dee was raised in [[Harlem, New York]].<ref name=cnn_obit/> Prior to attending [[Hunter College High School]], she studied at Public Schools 119 and 136.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19680831&id=jXwuAAAAIBAJ&pg=3498,6432108|title=Talented Ruby Dee Plays the Wife of Neurosurgeon in 'Peyton Place'|date=September 1968|work=Schnectady Gazette|access-date=February 16, 2019}}</ref> Then, she went on to graduate from [[Hunter College]] with a degree in [[Romance language]]s in 1945.<ref name=wapo/> She was a member of [[Delta Sigma Theta]].<ref>[http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/ndeltas.htm Delta Sigma Theta website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013051238/http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/ndeltas.htm |date=October 13, 2012 }}</ref>