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Sidney L. Poitier is a Bahamian-American retired actor, film director, activist, and ambassador born on February 20, 1927. A native of Cat Island, the Bahamas Poitier grew up in poverty as the so farmers Evelyn and Reginald James Poitier, who also drove a cab. He had little formal education and at the age of 15 was sent to Miami to live with his brother, in order to forestall a growing tendency...