Word: poitiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mboya's aid came prominent U.S. Negroes-notably ex-Dodger Jackie Robinson, Balladeer Harry Belafonte, Actor Sidney Poitier. In flowed the scholarships. The Americans chipped in plane fare; Africans chipped in pocket money. Carefully screened by Mboya, the 81 students enplaned for New York...
Robinson, Belafonte and Poitier let fly with a charge that Kenya's higher educational opportunities "are nonexistent under the repressive colonial system." "The facts are very different," snapped the British embassy's Colonial Attache Douglas Williams in a letter to the New York
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier leads a superb cast in Lorraine Hansberry's fine first play about the hopes, fears and dreams of a South Side Chicago Negro family...
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness...
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness...