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Actress Cicely Tyson accepts her honorary Oscar at the 2018 Governors Awards in Los Angeles.
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Photos | Cicely Tyson, actress who captured the power and grace of Black women in America, dies

Cicely Tyson, an actress famed for her elegant stage presence and her insistence — sometimes futile — on roles that reflected the power and grace of Black women in America, has died.

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Actress Cicely Tyson accepts her honorary Oscar at the 2018 Governors Awards in Los Angeles.   (Chris Pizzello/Associated Press)

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Cicely Tyson, left, starred in the 1977 limited series “Roots.”  (ABC Photo Archives)

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Actress Cicely Tyson in a scene from the movie “Sounder.”  (Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images)

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Cicely Tyson earned a Tony award in 2013 for work in “The Trip to Bountiful.”  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson start in “The Gin Game” in New York City in 2015.  (Walter McBride/WireImage)

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Actress Cicely Tyson, left, presents the Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award to Rosa Parks on Nov. 14, 1984.  (Suzanne Vlamis / Associated Press)

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Actress Cicely Tyson blows a kiss after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2016.  (Associated Press)

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Cicely Tyson poses with her Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in 1974.  (Associated Press)

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Cicely Tyson places her hands in cement at her Hand and Footprint Ceremony on April 27, 2018, in Los Angeles.  (Willy Sanjuan/Associated Press)

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Cicely Tyson is applauded during a Kennedy Center ceremony at the White House in 2015.  (Associated Press)

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Photos | Cicely Tyson, actress who captured the power and grace of Black women in America, dies

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