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Tyler Perry, 'Ma Rainey' Oscars mention Alabama history in powerful speeches


Tyler Perry, ‘Ma Rainey’ Oscars mention Alabama history in powerful speeches
Updated 8:01 AM;
Oscar winners brought Alabama to the ceremony Sunday night, with Tyler Perry and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hairstylist Mia Neal referenced the state’s history during powerful acceptance speeches in Los Angeles.
Perry received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award “for his active engagement with philanthropy and charitable endeavors in recent years, including efforts to address homelessness and economic difficulties faced by members of the African-American community.”
Viola Davis, a nominee for playing Ma Rainey, presented Perry with the award. During his speech, he recalled an encounter with a woman who asked him for a pair of shoes, which he said reminded him of his own mother and experiences with homelessness. ....

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While most sources state that she was born on April 26, 1886, in Columbus, Georgia, some suggest that her birth occurred in September 1882 in Alabama. Gertrude Pridgett made her first public appearance about the age of 14 in a local talent show called “Bunch of Blackberries” at the Springer Opera House in Columbus. Little else is known of her early years. In February 1904 she married William Rainey, a vaudeville performer known as Pa Rainey, and for several years they toured with African Americanminstrel groups as a song-and-dance team. In 1902, in a small Missouri town, she first heard the sort of music that was to become known as the blues. ....

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