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The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

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(audience cheering) [Wesley] Harry had
Sidney Poitier, who by '68 was the biggest
movie star in Hollywood

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(audience cheering)
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[Wesley] Harry had Sidney Poitier,
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who by '68 was the biggest movie star in Hollywood.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:14
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
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Movie Summary

For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.
There's a good angel looking after me somewhere. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
There's a good angel looking after me somewhere.
Sidney was pushing back against the type - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
Sidney was pushing back against the type
I'm so pleased to meet you. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
I'm so pleased to meet you.
I am artist, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
I am artist,
(slaps landing) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
(slaps landing)
That was the year of the smack! - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
That was the year of the smack!
(laughs) Heard all through the neighborhood. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
(laughs) Heard all through the neighborhood.
Change! (laughs) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:12
Change! (laughs)
(brassy music) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
(brassy music)
He was on "I Spy" with Robert Culp, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
He was on "I Spy" with Robert Culp,
He was playing an undercover agent alongside this white man. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
He was playing an undercover agent alongside this white man.
(gun fires) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
(gun fires)
In the late sixties, television was shifting - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
In the late sixties, television was shifting
It was no longer the terrain of just white people. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
It was no longer the terrain of just white people.
So now for the first time, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:12
So now for the first time,
Tomorrow night, my guests are Robert Goulet, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
Tomorrow night, my guests are Robert Goulet,
My job was to bring the best that Black America - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
My job was to bring the best that Black America
I want to thank Mr. Harry Singer for permitting you - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
I want to thank Mr. Harry Singer for permitting you
[Harry] And to put us out in one concentrated period, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
[Harry] And to put us out in one concentrated period,
(audience applauding) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
(audience applauding)