Originally Posted by
marv2
It went "Colored people are on TV", "Colored People are on TV". Now that really happened. I can remember running in the house to watch. I can remember my parents, especially my Mom calling relatives whenever a black person was on television for more than a few moments either a musical act, a black person featured in a film or an interview with a prominent black American. I can remember all of us sitting and watching the Supremes, Temptations, Miracles, Anthony and the Imperials, James Brown whenever they were on TV. Oprah was lying and exaggerating when it came to the Supremes. She is older than me, but even I can remember many gorgeous, sophisticated black female singers and actresses on television before the Supremes made their 2nd national appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show [[their first was the Steve Allen Show where I had seen Aretha Franklin way before the Supremes were on there). There were many more black female singers on television in the 50s and 60s before the Supremes came along. Heck! Hazel Scott even had her own tv show. I saw the Supremes on local Detroit TV before they were on the Sullivan Show.
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