James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin referenced in interview with actor Sidney Poitier

Source: London Evening Standard

July 27, 1966 (page 6 of 28).

Londoner’s Diary (no author)

Subtitle: ‘Frightening Poitier’.

Interview with actor Sidney Poitier. Journalist interviewing Poitier states: ‘Despite his success, he [Poitier] admits feeling closer to the novelist James Baldwin, another Negro at the top of his profession, than to any leading white actor. “We are both struggling for survival,” he says’.