bring us all closer together. there was the kind of grace and dignity and excellence and courageous commitment to civil rights. as a young boy in mississippi to see the heat of the night and to watch the buddy film with bill cosby and to see him with harry fontae doing what they did not only on films but behind the scenes for civil rights. he was in every way a model of what it means to be committed to justice. well, talking about that commitment to justice and just what it meant for some one like sidney poitier and harry bellafonte and others. using their stardoms in culture