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Celebrating Sidney Poitier

A guide with print and visual resources for research on Sidney Poitier. Actor, film director, civil rights activist, author, and ambassador, Poitier was a groundbreaking international film icon.

Film in Special Collections at ASU

Spanning the history of American film, theatre and television, the collection features theatre and movie playbills, film press kits and materials from many notable personalities in the American performing arts.

Hollywood Roundtable: Civil Rights, 1963


In this historical motion picture film from the U.S. Information Agency, Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Joseph Mankiewicz, James Baldwin, and David Shoenbrun discuss the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963.

Conference proceedings

Other Film and Television Repositories

The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.