On this episode of Our American Stories Sidney Poitier's elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar nbsp Sidney Poitier Man Actor Icon nbsp was the first full biography of legendary actor Sidney Poitier written by Aram Goudsouzian professor of history at the University of Memphis Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information
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