Editing Cicely Tyson (section)

=== Marriages and relationships ===
[[File:Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson 1982.jpg|thumb|right|Davis and Tyson in 1982]]
At the age of 18, Tyson married Kenneth Franklin on December 27, 1942.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marriage License |url= https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=61788&h=90384728&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2442 |website=Ancestry |publisher=New York City Department of Records & Information Services |access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref> They had a daughter two months later, in February 1943.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/movies/cicely-tyson-opened-up-about-relationship-with-daughter-memoir/|work=People|title=Cicely Tyson Opened Up About Her Relationship with Her Daughter in Her Memoir: 'My Beloved Princess'|first=Alexia|last=Fernández|date=January 28, 2021}}</ref> According to her divorce decree, her husband abandoned her on June 18, 1944. The marriage was formally dissolved in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61788&h=90384728&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Pta203&_phstart=successSource&requr=281474977005568&ur=0&gsfn=&gsln=&h=90384728|title= Join Ancestry®|website= ancestry.com}}</ref><ref name='Divorce'>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9280/images/43071_162028006056_0280-00220?pId=103759-5JC |title=Abstract of Divorce Decree|url-access=subscription |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=October 17, 1957 |website=Ancestry.com |access-date=January 13, 2021 }}</ref>

She was in a relationship with her ''[[Sounder (film)|Sounder]]'' co-star [[Paul Winfield]], living with him for about 18 months in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/winfield_p.html| title=Winfield, Paul| encyclopedia=glbtq encyclopedia| first=Linda| last=Rapp| year=2005| access-date=January 28, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205063607/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/winfield_p.html | archive-date=February 5, 2007}}</ref>

Tyson began dating jazz trumpeter [[Miles Davis]] in the 1960s when he was in the process of divorcing dancer [[Frances Taylor Davis|Frances Davis]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date= February 15, 1968|title=Miles Davis And Wife Now 'Miles Apart'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrgDAAAAMBAJ&q=cicely+tyson+miles+davis+jet+1968&pg=PA23|journal=Jet|volume= 33| issue = 19|pages=23}}</ref> Davis used a photo of Tyson for his 1967 album, ''[[Sorcerer (Miles Davis album)|Sorcerer]]''. Davis told the press in 1967 that he intended to marry Tyson in March 1968 after his divorce was finalized,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=November 2, 1967|title=Miles Davis To Make March Merger With Cicely Tyson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7gDAAAAMBAJ&q=cicely+tyson+miles+davis+jet&pg=PA56|journal=Jet|volume= 33| issue = 4|pages=56}}</ref> but instead he married singer [[Betty Davis|Betty Mabry]] that September.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 17, 1968|title=One Of Sexiest Men Alive |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=hTgDAAAAMBAJ&q=betty+davis+miles+davis+jet+1968&pg=PA48|journal=Jet|volume= 35| issue = 2|pages=48}}</ref>

Tyson and Davis rekindled their relationship in 1978. They were married on November 26, 1981, in a ceremony conducted by Atlanta mayor [[Andrew Young]] at the home of actor [[Bill Cosby]]. Their marriage was tumultuous due to Davis' volatile temper and infidelity.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Miles: The Autobiography| last1= Davis| first1= Miles |last2= Troupe| first2= Quincy |publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1990|isbn=978-0-671-72582-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/milesautobiograp0000davi}}</ref> Davis credited Tyson with saving his life and helping him overcome his [[cocaine]] addiction.<ref name=":0" /> They resided in [[Malibu, California]], and [[New York City]], until she filed for divorce in 1988.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=February 22, 1988|title=Cicely Tyson To Divorce Trumpeter Miles Davis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbsDAAAAMBAJ&q=cicely+tyson+miles+davis+jet&pg=PA13|journal=Jet|volume= 73| issue = 21|pages=13}}</ref> Their divorce was finalized in 1989, two years before Davis died in 1991.<ref name=":0" />

Tyson was godmother to the singer [[Lenny Kravitz]], having been friends with his mother, actress [[Roxie Roker]], as well as to [[Denzel Washington]]'s daughter Katia and [[Tyler Perry]]'s son Aman.<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 29, 2021|title=Pioneering US actress Cicely Tyson dies aged 96| work= BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55851522|access-date=January 29, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nelson |first=Allie |date=2025-01-01 |title=Lenny Kravitz's Net Worth in 2025 Shows It Pays to 'Dig In' |url=https://parade.com/celebrities/lenny-kravitz-net-worth |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Parade |language=en}}</ref>