“The Measure Of A Man” Chapter Four: Life in Black and White (1/2)

VI. Chapter Four: Life in Black and White

A. General Comprehension

Working with a partner, answer these questions.

According to Sidney Poitier, Harlem residents learned the following about their place in the political world:
a.

Q2 b.

Q3 c.

Q4 d.
For Sidney Poitier, Harlem had the following qualities: Type Here
Baron Smith taught Sidney Poitier that “Honesty is the best policy” when Sidney and his friend Yorick
Type Here
Sidney Poitier’s teachers were
Type Here
Teachers from among Sidney Poitier’s contemporaries were Type Here
Even today ,

Q10 ,

Q11 ,

and Q12
remain invaluable guides in Poitier’s political education.
Sidney Poitier was asked to sign a loyalty oath at least twice because of his admiration for

Sidney Poitier’s response both times was

He responded accordingly because Type Here

In responding this way, he risked
Like Arthur Ashe, the famous tennis player, who was a

man in a sport

Sidney Poitier was destined to become the first leading

actor in the
-dominated film industry.

Ashe understood that his role as an “outsider,” of someone “walking on the edge” (84), would eventually produce results that would be beneficial to more than himself alone. He became an

for this country and, when he went to South Africa, where apartheid (segregation of blacks and whites) was still in force, he had to be " "
In Atlanta, in 1955, after the film Blackboard Jungle had come out, Sidney Poitier entered a restaurant to find out from the maître d’, who had evidently recognized him, that he would have to

Poitier responded by

because Type Here

Poitier would never “accommodate” a system of racial injustice and discrimination.

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