Nat King Cole Show viewing (first Black national TV host)

CTL-E-1334 · Practice · other · 1956–1957

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Watching a Chicago-raised Black headliner host a national network variety show — a brief, landmark TV moment for Black viewers.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-074; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

NPR (July 10, 2013)

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