Soul Train

CTL-E-1184 · Institution · other · unspecified

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The nationally syndicated Black music-variety television show created by Don Cornelius, premiering on Chicago's WCIU-TV in 1970 and syndicated nationally from 1971.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:b-soultrain; source research type(s): institution. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Wikipedia (Soul Train); Chicago City Council proclamation (Dec 10, 2025)

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