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"In my case, the body of work stands for itself.... I believe my work has been representative of me as a guy." - Sidney Poitier "To become in comparison to Jackie Robinson can be an enormous compliment, but I don't believe it's necessarily deserved." - Sidney Poitier A lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential figures, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to rate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. Close to the end of the 20th century, the North american Film Institute placed the greatest actors and stars who worked through the Golden Time of Hollywood and the first 1 / 2 of the 1900s, and Sidney Poitier was placed 22nd on the list of men. Given the company he was bounded by, such a difference could be considered honor enough, but Poitier also happened to be the one minority on the list, an success made even more amazing given the systematic discrimination he experienced within the industry and the land where he was raised. Though he put in a lot of his youth in the Bahamas, Poitier was created in Miami and was subjected to the effects of Jim Crow at a age. With no good educational opportunities, Poitier struggled to even understand how to learn as a teenager, and after a stint in the Military, it's unclear where his life was headed until he efficiently auditioned for an area in the American Negro Theater, an organization that staged works through the 1940s and helped groom both Poitier and Harry Belafonte to be actors.
