Study Guide: The Measure of a Man
I. Pre-reading Activities
B. Identifying the Historical Moment
To appreciate the historical context surrounding the main achievements of Sidney Poitier’s career, work with a partner on placing the events mentioned here in the appropriate year. Do internet research about each event in order to complete this task.
Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy/Assassination of Robert Fitzgerald
Kennedy/Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr./Brown vs. Board of Education/Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington/Rosa Parks and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement/The Great Depression/Thurgood Marshall’s Appointment to the Supreme Court/World War II (The Holocaust)
February 20, 1927 Sidney Poitier’s date of birth