A Rolling Stone FOIA request has unearthed the FBI’s files on trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier, who was targeted for a program that brought Obama’s father to America.
in 1951, Poitier had to sign a paper making him the director’s indentured servant so he could legally work in the country. Separately, back home, he and others tried to raise the question of more employment opportunities for Black actors by petitioning the Actors’ Equity Association. Poitier would laterthat “those of us who petitioned wound up being blacklisted. I was one of the young Black actors who became persona non grata, charged with being a troublemaker.
An FBI document from 1960, which was declassified on January 4, 2023, shows that a repeat informant “advised that literature from the African-American Students Foundation, Inc.” was “probably getting wide dissemination in the U.S.” and may have used NAACP lists, of which Sidney Poitier was a member.
Actor Sidney Poitier and singer/actor Harry Belafonte leave Criminal Courts building after poising $50 bond each for James Forman and John Lewis. Forman, Lewis, and three others were charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing after refusing to leave the South African Consulate.
There’s indication Poitier had at least some inkling he was under the watch of the FBI and more than an inkling about the threat of being blacklisted in other ways. In his book, he was called into NBC and asked to distance himself from musician and actor
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