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Episode 96: Our Tribute to Sidney Poitier

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  1. Aldrich, Robert, director. The Dirty Dozen. #Movie Performance by Jim Brown. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967.
  2. Audley, Michael, director. The Mark of the Hawk. #Movie Universal-International, 1958.
  3. Aurthur, Robert Alan, director. The Lost Man. #Movie Universal Pictures, 1969.
  4. Boetticher, Budd, director. Red Ball Express. #Movie Universal Pictures, 1952.
  5. Brooks, Richard, director. Blackboard Jungle. #Movie Performance by Sidney Poitier. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, 1955.
  6. Brooks, Richard, director. Something of Value. #Movie Performances by Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1957.
  7. Carroll, Diahann. The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way. Amistad Press, 2008.
  8. Clavell, James, director. To Sir, with Love. #Movie Columbia Pictures, 1967.
  9. Davis, Ossie, director. Cotton Comes to Harlem. #Movie Performances by Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Calvin Lockhart. United Artists, 1970.
  10. Goldstone, James, director. Brother John. #Movie Columbia Pictures, 1971.
  11. Goudsouzian, Aram. Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. U of North Carolina P, 2004.
  12. Guinier, Lani. Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
  13. Guinier, Lani. The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America. Beacon Press, 2015.
  14. Guinier, Lani, and Gerald Torres. The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Harvard UP, 2002.
  15. Hathaway, Donny. Come Back, Charleston Blue [soundtrack]. #Music Atco Records, 1972.
  16. Jewison, Norman. In the Heat of the Night. #Movie Performance by Sidney Poitier. United Artists, 1967.
  17. Jones, Quincy. The Lost Man [soundtrack]. #Music Universal City Records (UNI), 1969.
  18. Korda, Zoltán, director. Cry, the Beloved Country. #Movie Performances by Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey. United Artists, 1952.
  19. Kramer, Stanley, director. The Defiant Ones. #Movie United Artists, 1958.
  20. Kramer, Stanley, director. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton. Columbia Pictures, 1967.
  21. Krochmal, Max, and Todd Moye, editors. Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas. U of Texas P, 2021.
  22. MacDermot, Galt. Cotton Comes to Harlem [soundtrack]. #Music United Artists Records, 1970.
  23. Mankiewicz, Joseph L., director. No Way Out. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Mildred Joanne Smith, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Amanda Randolph. 20th Century Fox, 1950.
  24. Mann, Daniel, director. For Love of Ivy. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier and Abbey Lincoln. Cinerama, 1968.
  25. Marche, Stephen. The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future. Avid Reader Press / Simon and Schuster, 2022.
  26. Martin, Roland S., host. "Hollywood Legend Sidney Poitier…." Roland Martin Unfiltered. #Media Black Star Network, 7 Jan. 2022.
  27. Mayfield, Curtis. Let's Do It Again [soundtrack]. #Music Curtom Records, 1975.
  28. McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Duke UP, 2002.
  29. McHenry, Elizabeth. To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Duke UP, 2021.
  30. Medford, Don, director. The Organization. #Movie United Artists, 1971.
  31. Moore, Leonard N. Teaching Black History to White People. U of Texas P, 2021.
  32. Nelson, Ralph, director. Lilies of the Field. #Movie Performance by Sidney Poitier. United Artists, 1963.
  33. Olatunji, Babatunde. Drums of Passion. #Music Columbia Records, 1960.
  34. Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country [novel]. Scribner, 2003.
  35. Perry, Imani. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Beacon Press, 2018.
  36. Petrie, Daniel, director. A Raisin in the Sun. [1961 film]. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. Columbia Pictures, 1961.
  37. Poitier, Sidney, director. Buck and the Preacher. #Movie Columbia Pictures, 1972.
  38. Poitier, Sidney, director. Let's Do It Again. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier and Lee Chamberlin. Warner Bros., 1975.
  39. Poitier, Sidney. Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter. HarperOne, 2008.
  40. Poitier, Sidney. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography. HarperOne, 2000.
  41. Poitier, Sidney, director. A Piece of the Action. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Hope Clarke, Tracy Reed, and Titos Vandis. Warner Bros., 1977.
  42. Poitier, Sidney, director. Uptown Saturday Night. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte. Warner Bros., 1974.
  43. Poitier, Sidney, director. A Warm December. #Movie Performances by Sidney Poitier and Esther Anderson. National General Pictures, 1973.
  44. Ragbir, Lise, and Cherise Smith, editors. Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. U of Texas P, 2020.
  45. Ritt, Martin, director. Edge of the City. [based on play: A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (Philco TV Playhouse)]. #Movie Performances by Sidney Portier and Ruby Dee. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, 1957.
  46. Ritt, Martin, director. Paris Blues. #Movie Performances by Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll. United Artists, 1961.
  47. Robeson, Paul. Here I Stand. Beacon Press, 1998.
  48. Ruark, Robert. Something Of Value [novel]. Doubleday, 1955.
  49. Stevens, George, director. The Greatest Story Ever Told. #Movie United Artists, 1965.
  50. Van Peebles, Melvin, director. Watermelon Man. #Movie Performances by Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran. Columbia Pictures, 1970.