At the Cicely Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts, Ms. Tyson did not merely lend her name, she put her heart and soul into the students, staff, and community.

Cicely Tyson with her husband, jazz trumpeter Myles Davis, backstage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York, August 22, 1983. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm) ASSOCIATED PRESS ...