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The Civil Rights Era on Screen: the Legacy of Sidney Poitier

n the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian

R.I.P. Sidney Poitier 🎥🏆

Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94

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Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94

The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he once said he felt “as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.”

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🎺Paris Blues🎷

Directed by Martin Ritt in 1961‚ this film is based on a novel by Harold Flender․
Starring Sidney Poitier‚ Paul Newman‚ Joanne Woodward‚ Diahann Carroll and Louis Armstrong․
Music by Duke Ellington․

In loving memory of a true icon‚ a champion for humanity and equality ․․․
Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier has left this earth at the age of 94․

🌹Rest In Peace 🕯 Thanks for the memories!🌹

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Sidney Poitier, trailblazing star who helped break down Hollywood color barriers, dies at 94

Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood’s onscreen color barriers before becoming one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s in movies such as “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” has died.

Poitier, the first Black man to win a competitive Academy Award for best actor and a towering role model for succeeding generations, died in the Bahamas, according to the office of Frederick A. Mitchell, Bahamian minister of foreign affairs and immigration. More information will be forthcoming at a news conference. Poitier was 94.

Tall and handsome, with a low and seductively smooth voice and what one writer called an “almost princely bearing,” Poitier projected an air of quiet dignity in roles that shattered stereotypes. ...

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-01-07/sidney-poitier-dead

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Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood’s on-screen color barriers and made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor, has died

Sidney Poitier, who made history as the first Black man to win the Oscar for lead actor and starred in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,' has died.

Sidney Poitier ist tot

Der Schauspieler #SidneyPoitier ist im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben. Er gewann 1964 als erster Schwarzer den Oscar als bester Hauptdarsteller. http://www.taz.de/Hollywood-Legende/!5826954/ #taz #tazgezwitscher #tageszeitung #Schauspieler #USA #Academy #Awards #Hollywood

Hollywood-Legende: Sidney Poitier ist tot

Der Schauspieler Sidney Poitier ist im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben. Er gewann 1964 als erster Schwarzer den Oscar als bester Hauptdarsteller.