Nat King Cole
Oprah Winfrey
First African American male star of a Network_televisionTV_show: Nat_King_Cole, The Nat King Cole Show
she is famous because she was the first African American to have there own college
Phillis is the first African- American woman to publish a poem of her own.
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.
Oprah Winfrey
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.
African American have their own identity and characteristics.
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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.
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.