A series of racist experiences in the Southeast, made Sidney Poitier avoid Atlanta. Love and a cluster of family, who made the metro Atlanta their, home kept him coming back.

In 1950, Sidney ... Poitier was born in Miami, and he returned there as a teenager. Sick of Jim Crow laws in the South, Poitier spent the latter half of his adolescence in New York City.

Sidney Poitier, the star of Hollywood classics like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and To Sir, With Love, has died at the age of 94. The actor came to fame at a time of racial segregation in the ...