We had seen Poitier’s most recent movie, A Patch of Blue, and we understood — how could we not? — the cultural relevance of his career. In films like Lilies of the Field, A Raisin in the Sun, and now his latest, Poitier embodied a reality he thought America must see: a Black man of dignity and strength.
Read moreA Tennessee Memory of Sidney Poitier
The year was 1966, and two icons came to honor Fisk University’s centennial