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Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper\u2019s wife in \u201cSounder,\u201d a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers\u2019 hearts in \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,\u201d died Thursday at age 96.<\/p>

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Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon. At this time, please allow the family their privacy,\u201d according to a statement issued through Thompson.<\/p>

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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. Besides her Oscar nomination, she won two Emmys for playing the 110-year-old former slave in the 1974 television drama \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.\u201d<\/p>

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Tyson’s memoir, \u201cJust As I Am,\u201d was published this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very selective as I\u2019ve been my whole career about what I do. Unfortunately, I\u2019m not the kind of person who works only for money. It has to have some real substance for me to do it,\u201d she told The Associated Press in 2013.<\/p>

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Besides her Oscar nomination, she won two Emmys for playing the 110-year-old former slave in the 1974 television drama \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.\u201d A new generation of moviegoers saw her in the 2011 hit \u201cThe Help.\u201d In 2018, she was given an honorary Oscar statuette at the annual Governors Awards. \u201cThis is a culmination of all those years of haves and have nots,\u201d Tyson said.<\/p>\n

She was one of the recipients for the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor. At that ceremony, President Barack Obama said: \u201cCicely\u2019s convictions and grace have helped for us to see the dignity of every single beautiful memory of the American family.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cSounder,\u201d based on the William H. Hunter novel, was the film that confirmed her stardom in 1972. Tyson was cast as the Depression-era loving wife of a sharecropper (Paul Winfield) 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.<\/p>

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The New York Times reviewer wrote: \u201cShe passes all of her easy beauty by to give us, at long last, some sense of the profound beauty of millions of black women.\u201d Tyson went on to earn an Academy Award nomination as best actress of 1972.<\/p>\n

In an interview on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel, she recalled that she had been asked to test for a smaller role in the film and said she wanted to play the mother, Rebecca. She was told, \u201cYou\u2019re too young, you\u2019re too pretty, you\u2019re too sexy, you\u2019re too this, you\u2019re too that, and I said, `I am an actress.’\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2013, at the age of 88, Tyson won the Tony for best leading actress in a play for the revival of Horton Foote\u2019s \u201cThe Trip to Bountiful.\u201d It was the actress\u2019 first time back on Broadway in three decades and she refused to turn meekly away when the teleprompter told to finish her acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

“‘Please wrap it up,’ it says. Well, that\u2019s exactly what you did with me: You wrapped me up in your arms after 30 years,\u201d she told the crowd.<\/p>\n

She told The AP afterward she had prepared no speech \u2014 \u201cI think it\u2019s presumptuous\u201d \u2014 and that \u201cI burned up half my time wondering what I was going to say.\u201d She reprised her role in a Lifetime Television movie, which was screened at the White House.<\/p>\n

In the 1974 television drama \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

In the touching climax, she laboriously walks up to a \u201cwhites only\u201d water fountain and takes a drink as white officers look on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important that they see and hear history from Miss Jane\u2019s point of view,\u201d Tyson told The New York Times. \u201cAnd I think they will be more ready to accept it from her than from someone younger\u201d<\/p>\n

New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael offered her praise: \u201cShe\u2019s an actress, all right, and as tough-minded and honorable in her methods as any we\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the Emmy Awards, \u201cPittman\u201d won multiple awards, including two honors for Tyson, best lead actress in a drama and best actress in a special.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople ask me what I prefer doing \u2014 film, stage, television? I say, \u2018I would have done \u201cJane Pittman\u201d is the basement or in a storefront.\u2019 It\u2019s the role that determines where I go,\u201d she told the AP.<\/p>\n

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