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Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte Support Civil Rights

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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