Carol Channing's Secret Racial Heritage

"In her 2002 autobiography, 'Just Lucky I Guess,' Ms. [Carol] Channing," wrote the New York Times,"revealed that when she was 16 her mother told her that her father was part black;she kept her racial heritage a secret, she wrote, for fear that it would be bad for her career."(Carol Channing, who died recently at age 97, was a Broadway musical star. She is best known for her role as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly.)

I wonder if  Carol Channing had ever been approached by professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to appear on his public television series Finding Your Roots to discover more about her father's side of the family.

Carol Channing Entered A Look-Alike Contest

Film critic Jeffrey Lyons, on WCBS News Radio Eight-Eighty in New York, told the story of the time Broadway star Carol Channing, who recently died at age 97, entered a drag queen Carol Channing look-alike contest and won third place.