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Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte Support Civil Rights
The actors (with Southern sit-in leader Bernard Lee) attend a civil rights rally in 1960. Poitier and Belafonte also stood with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1963 March on Washington.
In this photo:
Sidney Poitier
,
Bernard Lee
,
Harry Belafonte
Photo: Al Fenn./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
May 01, 1960
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