Sidney Poitier

Actors <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB003433" title="Sidney Poitier" href="/topic/entertainment/sidney-poitier-PECLB003433.topic">Sidney Poitier</a>, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB000418" title="Harry Belafonte" href="/topic/entertainment/music/harry-belafonte-PECLB000418.topic">Harry Belafonte</a>, and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB002363" title="Charlton Heston" href="/topic/entertainment/charlton-heston-PECLB002363.topic">Charlton Heston</a> gather in a round table to discuss the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. In 1963, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor and became the first black man to do so. <a href="http://media.nara.gov/cs/001/41668.wmv" target="_blank">Listen to the U.S. National Archives exert from the entertainers' roundtable civil rights dicussion.</a>

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Actors Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston gather in a round table to discuss the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. In 1963, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor and became the first black man to do so. Listen to the U.S. National Archives exert from the entertainers' roundtable civil rights dicussion.

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