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Episode 101: Promise
the memory palace
Hazel Scott - The First Black Person to Have Their Own Network Television Show
Hazel scott was the first black person, male or female, to have their own network television show. Her name appeared in a list of suspected subversives. She had sung a decade before a cafe society benefit for a communist party candidate for the newyork city council. People didn't volunteer and people told her not to. But she went because she had nothing to hide. And she wentBecause she was hazel scott, beloved star wife of a congressman,. surely immune to black lists. Who better to speak out against the injustice of mc carthy's witch hunt? So she appeared, she spoke out, and her tev show was cancelled and her movie carreer
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