Actress (b: 1941) - I'll Fly Away (Emmy win - 1993), A Different World, The Matrix Revolutions, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The Women Of Brewster Place, Laurel Avenue, To Sleep With Anger, Life With Mikey, Beat Street, Sparkle, All My Children

Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999