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When Jennifer Hudson clutched her Oscar for "Dreamgirls" and dedicated it to "Florence Ballard, who never got a chance," the tears flowed in more than one household in Detroit.
Ballard, a founding member of the Supremes, died in 1976 of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 32, after several years of struggle as the single mother of three.
"It moved me to tears," Ballard's sister Maxine Ballard Jenkins said of Hudson's words. "She showed her compassion for my sister."
