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The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

Sidney was pushing backagainst the type that the industry assumedhe was and needed him to...

Sidney was pushing back
against the type that the industry assumed
he was and needed him to be

Full Transcript

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Sidney was pushing back against the type
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that the industry assumed he was and needed him to be.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:25
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
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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.
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)
The shocking thing is that through 1971, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:10
The shocking thing is that through 1971,
Oh, this show's over, let's just record on this same tape - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
Oh, this show's over, let's just record on this sa...