Poitier, who was the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 1964, has died
that examined the lives of Black Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Such roles were rare at the time when America was undergoing social changes against the backdrop of the civil rights movement. In a 1967 interview, he said, “The kind of Negro played on the screen was always negative, buffoons, clowns, shuffling butlers, really misfits.
This was the background when I came along 20 years ago and I chose not to be a party to the stereotyping,” NBC News. “I want people to feel when they leave the theater that life and human beings are worthwhile,” he added. “That is my only philosophy about the pictures I do.” Besides acting, Poitier was the Bahamian ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2007. He is
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