Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps
Cicely Tyson was a Black actor who knocked down doors so other women of color could walk through them. With dignified grace, Tyson strategically selected powerful roles with an intent to elevate the perception of Black actors in films such as ”Sounder” and on TV with ”The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” She strived to shatter stereotypes and inspired many Black actresses along the way to follow her footsteps. A younger generation of Black actors ― Viola Davis, Kerry Washington and Zendaya among them ― all paid homage to Tyson after learning of her death at age 96 on Thursday. Davis said Tyson made her feel ”valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility for us dark chocolate girls.” Washington felt Tyson was a ”foretaste of glory,” while Zendaya, who made Emmy history last year as the youngest lead drama actress winner, called the actor ”one of the greatest to ever do it.””Thank you for kicking doors down for girls like me,” actor Tika Sumpter said.Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details. The actor’s passing comes just a few days after the release of her memoir ”Just As I Am.” A onetime model, Tyson began her screen career with bit parts but gained fame in the early 1970s when Black women were finally starting to get starring roles. Tyson refused to take parts simply for the paycheck, remaining choosey.Tyson desired to get away from the negative portrayals of Black women with the hopes of highlighting them with powerful prestige. ”Cicely decided early on that her work as an actor would be more than a job,” Oprah Winfrey said in a statement. ”She used her career to illuminate the humanity in Black people. The roles she played reflected her values; she never compromised. Her life so fully lived is a testimony to Greatness.”Tyson earned an Oscar nomination for her role in ”Sounder,” where she played a Depression-era loving wife of a sharecropper who is confined in jail for stealing a piece of meat for his family. She is forced to care for their children and attend to the crops.In the 1974 television drama ”The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” based on a novel by Ernest J. Gaines, Tyson is seen aging from a young woman in slavery to a 110-year-old who campaigned for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In the touching climax, she laboriously walks up to a ”whites only” water fountain and takes a drink as white officers look on.That role in ”Pittman” earned Tyson two Emmys. She also won a supporting actress Emmy in 1994 for her character in the ”Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.”At the age of 88, Tyson won the Tony for best leading actress in a play for the revival of Horton Foote’s ”The Trip to Bountiful.” The revival was the actor’s first time back on Broadway in three decades. She refused to turn meekly away when the teleprompter told her to wrap up her acceptance speech.A new generation of movieg
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