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Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist and songwriter. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards as well as writing and singing her own material.
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Civil Rights Activist Abbey Lincoln - I feel now I can relax. August 03, 1968. (Photo by Arthur Pomerantz/New York Post Archives /(c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)