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Sidney Poitier -- Hollywood's first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

  • Written by Aram Goudsouzian, Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
imageSidney Poitier, seen here in a 1980 photograph. Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images

In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their guest, he said, was his “soul brother.”

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