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read moreFILE - Actress Cicely Tyson, left, presents the Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award from the Wonder Woman Foundation, Inc., to Rosa Parks on Nov. 14, 1984. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder, " a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers' hearts in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, " has died. She was 96. Tyson's death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details.