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Actress Dorothy Carter has passed away at the age of 94. She died in New York on Sept. 14 after a battle with bladder cancer.

After studying drama under legendary actress and teacher Stella Adler, Carter made her Broadway debut in 1945 in the stage adaptation of Lillian Smith's interracial love story "Strange Fruit."

She joined the American Negro Theater and appeared in another Broadway production, Walk Hard, in 1946. She went on to become a teacher and became the first black professor at New York's Bank Street College of Education. Carter wrote a series of children's books in her 80s.