Rhythm Club, Harlem, 145
Ribs in the Ruff, 142
Rickey, Branch, 186
Robeson, Paul, 161–62, 187–88, 197
Robinson, Jackie, 186–87, 197
Robinson, Rachel, 186
role models, 181–99
Rolle, Yorrick, 66, 71, 94, 164–66
Roman Catholic Church, 80, 84
Romans, 236
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 192
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 192
Russia, 19, 187, 236, 240
Sagan, Carl, 88
St. Louis, 99
sapodillas, 62–63
satellites, 232–33
Scandinavia, 236, 238
science, 87, 88, 142, 237, 255, 262, 266, 272; society and, 219–34
segregation, 20, 68, 105, 169, 173–76, 191–93, 217; bathroom, 174–76; education, 192–93; train, 191–92
Separate but Equal (film), 194–95
September 11 terrorist attacks, 89
sharecropping, 191
shoplifting, 153–57
slavery, 23, 26, 80, 81, 89, 105, 196–97, 217, 267; abolition of, 80; escapees, 80; trade, 80, 142
Smith, Baron, 165–66
society and science, 219–34
soothsayers, 21–22, 79, 81, 103
soul, 261–62
South Africa, 123, 174–76, 182–84, 193, 195; apartheid, 174–76, 182–84
South America, 19
Soviet Union, 240
Spielberg, Steven, 196
sports, 186–87
Stalin, Joseph, 242
stealing, 153–57
stem-cell research, 117
Stevens, George, 194–95
Straw Market, 38–39
subsistence farming, 4
sugar, 6
Supreme Court, U.S., 185, 194
Susskind, David, 172
swimming, 24, 172–73
Syracuse, New York, 56
Tanzania, 195
technology, 100, 209, 219–34, 239, 243, 248
telephone, 224, 228
television, 117, 172, 205, 219–20, 225, 239
terrorism, 89, 242–43, 266
theater, 98; Poitier’s early career in, 98–99, 106–107
Theresa Hotel, Harlem, 144
thievery, 153–57
tobacco, 6
To Sir with Love (film), 128
tomato farming, 6, 20, 35, 44, 212
Tuskegee Airmen, 192
Twain, Mark, 272
United Nations, 188
Universal Pictures, 128
universe, 215, 255, 268; creation of, 88–89
University of Georgia, 193
University of Mississippi, 193
village life, 6, 7, 31–35
violence, 167–68, 170–72, 207, 265–66; war and, 235–44
Vogue, 128
voodoo practices, 55, 81, 118
Wall Street, 239 “want” and “need,” channel between, 93–101
war, 235–44, 266
Warren, Earl, 194–95
water shortages, 246, 247, 250
Wells, Ida B., 191–92
West Africa, 10–11
Western movies, 5
Western Senior, 65
West Indies, 122, 147
wheel, 226
Wildberg, John, 98–99
Winfrey, Oprah, 178, 184, 189, 193
Wisconsin, 99
World War I, 236, 241
World War II, 89, 192, 224, 236, 241
Wright, Arthur, 190
Yale Law School, 190
Zambia, 195
About the Author
SIDNEY POITIER was the first African-American to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Lilies of the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and To Sir, With Love. He has starred in over forty films, directed nine, and written four. He is the author of two autobiographies: This Life, and “Oprah’s Book Club” pick and New York Times bestseller The Measure of a Man. Among many other accolades, Poitier has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, for an outstanding career and humanitarian accomplishment. He is married, has six daughters, four grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters.
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LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter. Copyright © 2008 by Sidney Poitier. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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