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Fulto Fryar's Closet: racial inequality in the 1950's NY

A talented signers and racial inequality in 1950s.

Aired 07/25/2019

Spotlight

Fulto Fryar's Closet: racial inequality in the 1950's NY

Special | 4m 59s

A talented signers and racial inequality in 1950s.

TV special and its webpage tell a relatively unknown story of racial inequality in 1950s Adirondack culture, and how memories of it resurfaced recently when a building at Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, New York, faced demolition. The building housed a young singer named Fulton Fryar. He was the first African American singer to study at the colony. In 1957 his sleeping quarters were kept se-

Aired 07/25/2019

Spotlight is a local public television program presented by Mountain Lake PBS

Spotlight

Fulto Fryar's Closet: racial inequality in the 1950's NY

Special | 4m 59s

TV special and its webpage tell a relatively unknown story of racial inequality in 1950s Adirondack culture, and how memories of it resurfaced recently when a building at Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, New York, faced demolition. The building housed a young singer named Fulton Fryar. He was the first African American singer to study at the colony. In 1957 his sleeping quarters were kept se-

Aired 07/25/2019

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