In this clip from the AFI Archive, Sidney Poitier shares his thoughts on African American writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who utilized her writing to help the civil rights movement, specifically with her hit Broadway show, starring Poitier, A RAISIN IN THE SUN.

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