![]() Her career in America faltered after she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950 during the era of McCarthyism. In 1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show. She was active as a jazz singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In her teens, she performed at Café Society while still at school. Scott was a child musical prodigy, receiving scholarships to study at the Juilliard School when she was eight. īorn in Port of Spain, Scott moved to New York City with her mother at the age of four. She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. ![]() ![]() Hazel Dorothy Scott (J– October 2, 1981) was a Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist and singer. The first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show ![]()
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