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Sun, 05.22.1966

The First Black Wins Emmy Award for Best Actor

On this date in 1966, Bill Cosby received an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Television Series.

Cosby won because of his role as an undercover agent disguised as a trainer/companion to an international tennis player in the show “I Spy.”

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There is music in me, the music of a peasant people. I wander through the levee, picking my banjo and singing my songs of the cabin and the field. At last... THE BANJO PLAYER by Fenton Johnson.
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