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Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World

Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World

The slap heard "round the world" Sidney Poitier makes history in this iconic scene. Watch for FREE on Fawesome🍿 #InTheHeatOfTheNight #SidneyPoitier #Fawesome #FreeMovies #BlackHistory #CinemaHistory #MrTibbs #ClassicMovies #Oscars #MustWatch 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 © 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴.⁠ 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 🇺🇸 | Fawesome.tv

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Great moments in Black history. When Sidney Poitier slapped a white man on film!That slap in In the Heat of the Night wasn’t some Hollywood improv—**Sidney Poitier made it a condition of the role… | Khafre Jay | 58 comments

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Happy Birthday Sidney Poitier! ・ This famous "slap heard 'round the world" scene from IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT ('67) marked the first time an African American man had ever slapped a white man on screen before. When he does it, you feel his reply to every humiliation received over the years. When production began in 1966, Poitier refused to shoot in the South. He was still traumatised by the experience of being tailed by Klansmen when visiting North Carolina with Harry Belafonte. | SHOPPE BLACK

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In 1967, something happened on the big screen that shocked America. In the film In the Heat of the Night, #SidneyPoitier’s character, Detective Virgil Tibbs, is slapped by a wealthy white plantation owner in Mississippi. And then… he slaps him back. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, that moment was explosive. In much of the South at that time, a Black man could be beaten — or worse — for far less. Hollywood had rarely, if ever, shown a Black character physically retaliating against a w

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