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Who was the first African American to own his own network radio show?
Nat King Cole
Who was the first African American to have his own TVs series?
Oprah Winfrey
What African American first starred in his own television series?
First African American male star of a Network_televisionTV_show: Nat_King_Cole, The Nat King Cole Show
Why is Mary bethune famous?
she is famous because she was the first African American to have there own college
Who is phillis wheaty?
Phillis is the first African- American woman to publish a poem of her own.
Name the singer who was the first black celebrity to own his own television show?
The first African American man to have a TV show was singer Nat King Cole in 1956. The first African American woman to have her own show was Oprah Winfrey in 1986.
Who was the first African American to own a movie and television studio?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first African American woman to have her picture on a postage stamp?
The first African-American woman honored on her own stamp was Harriet Tubman in 1978. Some of the letter-sorters shown on a 1973 stamp appear to black women.
How does the African American value of communalism relate to the mainstream American value of individualism?
African American have their own identity and characteristics.
Does an African American own a major commercial airline?
No
Who was the first African American to star in a tv series 1965-1968?
Diahann Carroll is best known for her title role in the 1968 television series Julia, which made her the first African American actress to star in her own television series where she did not play a domestic worker.
Who was the first African American to have the first network radio show?
By most accounts, the Cotton Club Orchestra was one of the earliest shows heard on a radio network-- NBC, in 1930 (it had been heard on New York radio for several years prior to getting a network slot); Duke Ellington was in the band at that time. Another early black performer with his own radio show was Noble Sissle, whose band was heard on the CBS radio network beginning in 1931.
