Editing Ruby Dee (section)

=== Marriage ===
Ruby Wallace married blues singer Frankie Dee Brown in 1941, and began using his middle name as her stage name. The couple divorced in 1945.<ref name=wapo/> Three years later she married actor [[Ossie Davis]], whom she met while costarring in [[Robert Ardrey]]'s 1946 Broadway play ''[[Jeb (play)|Jeb]]''.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|author=Felicia R. Lee |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/20/garden/at-home-with-ossie-davis-and-ruby-dee-art-and-politics-keeping-it-all-fresh.html |title=At home with: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; Art and Politics: Keeping It All Fresh |work = [[The New York Times]] |date=April 20, 1995 |access-date=June 12, 2014}}</ref> Together, Dee and Davis wrote an autobiography in which they discussed their political activism and their decision to have an [[open marriage]] (later changing their views).<ref>{{cite web | author=Sheri Stritof; Bob Stritof | url=http://marriage.about.com/od/quotes/a/ossierubyopen.htm | title=Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on Open Marriage | publisher=About.com | access-date=2007-01-11 | archive-date=February 10, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210143920/http://marriage.about.com/od/quotes/a/ossierubyopen.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://marriage.about.com/od/quotes/a/ossierubyopen.htm|title=Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on Open Marriage|work=About.com|access-date=July 30, 2008|archive-date=February 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210143920/http://marriage.about.com/od/quotes/a/ossierubyopen.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Together they had three children: son, blues musician [[Guy Davis (musician)|Guy Davis]], and two daughters, Nora Day and Hasna Muhammad. Dee was a [[breast cancer]] survivor of more than three decades.<ref name=abc>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/oscar-nominee-ruby-dee-died-91/story?id=24107963 |title=Oscar Nominee Ruby Dee Dead at 91 – ABC News |work=ABC News |date=October 16, 2013 |access-date=June 12, 2014}}</ref> In 1979, the [[Supersisters]] trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Dee's name and picture.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wulf |first=Steve |url=https://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentary/story/_/id/12535055/original-roster |title=Supersisters: Original Roster |publisher=ESPN |date=2015-03-23 |access-date=2015-06-04}}</ref>