Tootsie and Six Degrees of Separation 
.... in Manhattan, Flan and Ouisa Kittredge, who open their home to a young black man claiming to be a friend of their children and the son of actor
Sidney Poitier. ....
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Hollywood Racism
.... the era, but even after the Civil Rights Act of 1965 positive Black roles in major motion pictures were rare until individuals like
Sidney Poitier helped break ....
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African-Americans in Film
.... and Orson Welles (1952) performed the role in blackface, interracial relationships were the province of two black actors: Harry Belafonte and
Sidney Poitier. ....
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Los Angeles riot in 1992
.... servant roles assigned to African Americans in Fried Green Tomatoes and I'll Fly Away are examples, and hooks describes the role of
Sidney Poitier in Lilies of ....
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Separate But Equal TV Docudrama
.... The NAACP team is headed by Thurgood Marshall (very well acted by
Sidney Poitier), who later would become the first African American Supreme Court justice. ....
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Separate But Equal
.... The NAACP team is headed by Thurgood Marshall (very well acted by
Sidney Poitier), who later would become the first African American Supreme Court justice. ....
(759
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The image of blacks in the American media
.... Blacks who were promoted as heroes and representatives of their group included
Sidney Poitier as actor in the two films discussed above (though he was not ....
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Early Black Films Black films from the 1920s, 1930s, a
....
Sidney Poitier managed to achieve a greater range in roles, but he was always the integrationist hero in that he was educated and intelligent and served as the ....
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British Films of the 1960s
.... In this film Mark Thackeray (
Sidney Poitier) confronts a group of "rock-and-rolling louts and provocative dolly birds" in his role as a teacher (Murphy 141). ....
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