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Shows for white audiences were limited to just one Black act per show out of around 20 performances, [2] [8] though a white actors strike in 1901 opened doors for African American performers. [9] In order to bring less attention to Black performances, African American acts were usually given one of the first or last acts, as theatre managers ...
This sixty-minute variety show was created and hosted by Jack L. Cooper who was known as the first African American radio broadcaster. [2] The All-Negro Hour first premiered on November 3, 1929, on World Stage Battery Company ( WSBC ), a white-owned radio station in Chicago, and ran until 1935. [ 1 ]
The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience. Specifically, it was the first successful network variety series starring an African American. [1]
The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, and it was the second highest-rated show on network television for a time. [2] Wilson was the first African American to host a successful TV variety show. [2] [a] In January 1972, Time magazine featured Wilson's image on its cover and named him "TV's first black superstar". [3]
The Ethel Waters Show was a one-hour American television variety special that ran in the earliest days of NBC Television, on June 14, 1939, and was hosted by actress and singer Ethel Waters. [1] Waters was the first black performer, male or female, to have her own TV show and may very well have been the first black person to appear on television.
Silas Green was a traveling African-American variety show that included, among other entertainment, the scantily clad "Oochie Coochie Mamas." Chavis, who was about 10 at the time, didn't know who ...
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(also stylized in uppercase [1] [2]) is a performance/variety television program that showcased African American music, dance and literature in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [3] It was produced by New York City public television station WNDT (later rebranded as WNET during its run), and distributed by NET and its successor PBS.