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Modeled after Life but intended for an emerging black middle class, the magazine is an instant success. This same year, Nat King Cole becomes the first black with his own network radio show. Cole is also the first black with his own network TV show, The Nat King Cole Show (1956). Jackie Robinson plays baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first black in the major leagues in the modern era. In 1962 he was the first black inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
By then, Nat King Cole had established himself as one of the most recognizable voices in American music with hits like his signature âUnforgettable,â âMona Lisaâ and âThe Christmas Song.â He was the first black man to host, and own, a television show: âThe Nat King Cole Showâ on NBC. Cole was a huge star and, when it came to race, barreled through some major barriers. But Clarke would also learn of the call her biological mother, Coleâs oldest daughter, Carole, would make to that Hancock Park mansion from a pay phone at New Yorkâs Lenox Hill Hospital the day after her baby was born.