Dear Editor ‘For 1950s’ audiences in T&T, seeing Sidney Poitier on screen […] was a revelation’

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“[…] For 1950s’ audiences in Trinidad and Tobago, seeing Sidney Poitier on screen in significant roles was a revelation. This was no longer Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen of Gone with the Wind, Stepin’ Fetchit of so many stereotyped portrayals of the black buffoon or the walk-on appearances by black singing and dancing groups in …
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