Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee was an actress, poet, playwright. She served on the Advisory Board of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She was married to Ossie Davis.

Guardian

In March 1979, the New York radical magazine the Guardian issued an emergency appeal to funds in an effort to save the publication.

Over fifty supporters endorsed the appeal including Ruby Dee

District 1199 Cultural Center

In 1982 Advisers to the District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc. New York were:

• Moe Foner, Executive Director
• Miriam Colon
• Ossie Davis
• Ruby Dee
• Madeline Gilford
• Jack Golodner
• Micki Grant
• Herbert H. Gutman
• Michael Harrington
• Patricia Hills
• Irving Howe
• Harold Leventhal
• Stanley Levison
• Harold Lewis
• Eve Merriam
• Walter Rosenblum
• John Schultz
• Brendan Sexton
• Piri Thomas
• Arthur Waldhorm

We Will Make Peace Prevail!

On March 28, 1982 the New World Review organized a gala luncheon "We Will Make Peace Prevail! Disarmament Over Confrontation, Life Over Death", at the Grand Ballroom, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. Virtually all participants were identified as Communist Party USA.

Ruby Dee was listed on the Committee of Sponsors.

Reaganism: Black Genocide

Reaganism: Black Genocide Take Our Fight to the World's People! March to the U.N. May 22!

From a Communist Workers Party-linked Poster advertising a protest in 1982:,

"Reaganism: Black Genocide Take Our Fight to the World's People! March to the U.N. May 22!"

"Leaflet advertising an African Liberation Day 1982 demonstration at the United Nations. The leaflet says the lives and freedom of Black people in the U.S., southern Africa, and the Caribbean are threatened by an onslaught of unprecedented ferocity spearheaded by the Reagan administration. Reagan supports Black slavery in South Africa. The leaflet notes it is the tenth anniversary of African Liberation Day and 1982 has been declared the "International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa" by the UN Committee Against Apartheid. Slogans include "Take Our Fight to the World's People! March to the U.N. May 22!" "Self-Determination and Equal Rights for Black People from the U.S. to S. Africa!" and "Full Sanctions Against South Africa! Freedom for Namibia, Victory to SWAPO!"

Signatories

• Black Student Communications Organizing Network (BSCON)
• Federation for Progress
• Rep. Mickey Leland, U.S. Congress, Texas
• William H. Booth, President, American Committee on Africa
• Rev. Timothy Mitchell, Ebenezer Baptist Church
• Mike Young, Communist Workers Party
• Coalition of Concerned Black Women
• Rev. Dr. William A. Jones, National Black Pastors Conference
• Ossie Davis
• Ruby Dee
• New York TransAfrica
• Rev. Fred Douglas Kirkpatrick, Black Theology Project
• Barbara Valentine, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 8-A, President, People's Co-op, Washington, D.C.
• Kojo Nnambi, News Director, WHUR-Radio
• Dr. Manning Marable, Professor, Cornell University
• Roger Green, New York State Assemblyman
• Fr. Paul Washington, 1st Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Dave Richardson, PA. State Representative
• Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Republic of New Africa
• Prof. Rita Smith, Pan-African Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BCLSA), Boston, Mass.
• South West African People's Organization
• Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania
• Rev. Dr. Fred Williams, Church of the Intercessions

Peace for Cuba Appeal

In 1994 Ruby Dee was an initiator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the Workers World Party dominated International Action Center.

Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, Congressman John Conyers and Charles Rangel.

TranAfrica Nigeria letter

In an attempt to prod the military government of Nigeria toward a return to civilian rule, TransAfrica Forum's Randall Robinson enlisted the aid of politicians, educators and celebrities in order to focus the eyes of the world on human-rights abuses in Africa's most populous nation and return democracy to what many consider Africa's best hope. In a March 1995 letter to General Sani Abacha, who came to power in a 1993 military coup, Robinson accused Abacha of killing political opponents and shutting down the press. Robinson beseeched Abacha "to expedite the restoration of democracy" to Nigeria's 100 million people or face "incalculable damage" and "eventual economic and political isolation of your regime."

The letter was signed by a host of prominent Blacks: author Maya Angelou, actors Danny Glover, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Joseph Lowery; musician and composer Quincy Jones; TV personality Bryant Gumbel; acting NAACP head Earl T. Shinhoster; International Human Rights Group director Gay McDougall; Harvard Law Professor and former Judge Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; National Urban League president Hugh Price; and a majority of Congressional Black Caucus members, including Chairman Donald Payne (D-NJ) and Alcee Hastings (D-FL), both House Subcommittee on Africa members.

Communist "Manifestivity"

On October 30 and 31, 1998 the Brecht Forum presented the "Communist Manifestivity to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" at Cooper Union's Great Hall, New York.

Individual endorsers of the event included Ruby Dee.

Supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal

Supporters of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal responded to the April 2009 U.S. Supreme Court ruling by launching a campaign (freemumia.com/civilrights.html) calling for a federal civil rights investigation into Abu-Jamal’s case. The campaign’s supporters include the Riverside Church’s Prison Ministry [New York City], actress Ruby Dee, Professor Cornel West and U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, who was then Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Art Against Apartheid

John O. Killens Book Party December 15 1984?

With Rev. Calvin Butts, Gil Noble, Abbey Lincoln, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

Obituaries for Ruby Dee, June 2014

Several obituaries concerning actress/communism supporter Ruby Dee failed to provide any real information as to her half-century-plus role as a Communist Party USA supporter through their various fronts and causes. Her record, as will be presented here, will show that she literally paralleled the communist-support activities of her late husband, actor Ossie Davis, perhaps the top CPUSA fronter among black Hollywood/theater radicals of all times.