My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

Early life
Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City in 1925 the daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants Witia (née Haskell) a teacher and Abraham W. In recent years Lee Grant directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes (for Lifetime Television) that celebrated a diverse range of accompliLee Grantd women. diplomat who goes undercover to discredit a rogue diplomat.

She was blacklisted for 12 years from film work beginning in the mid-1950s but worked in the theatre and would eventually win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo (1975). Lee Grant (born October 31 1925) is an American stage film and television actress and film director.