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Abbey Lincoln
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Linco…
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Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own material.
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2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie Self
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2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2020
70 Years of Youth Revolt
TV show Self (archive footage)
- 2005
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1990
Mo' Better Blues
Movie Lillian Gilliam
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Josie
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1972
Short Walk to Daylight
Movie Dorella
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1971
Great Performances
TV show Self
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1971
All in the Family
TV show Laura Grant
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1968
The Name of the Game
TV show Claudia Lee
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1968
For Love of Ivy
Movie Ivy Moore
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1966
Mission: Impossible
TV show Millie Webster
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1964
Nothing But a Man
Movie Josie
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1956
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie Herself
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1956
The Steve Allen Show
TV show Self
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
