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50 years ago today: A white woman touched a black man's arm for the first time on primetime TV
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The fleeting moment on an NBC primetime special between Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte on April 2, 1968 while they sung the anti-war song "On the Path of Glory" "was controversial enough to prompt an executive with the Chrysler Corporation, the program’s sponsor, to protest vehemently—turning what one critic would eventually call 'a stylish, sophisticated musical hour' into an inter-racial cause célèbre," says Donald Liebenson.
TOPICS: African Americans and TV, NBC, Harry Belafonte, Petula Clark
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