History Facts & Stories on Instagram: "Although the date “1960” is often repeated in retellings, the event people usually mean actually happened earlier in the late 1950s, after Frankie Lymon had already become famous with Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. Lymon was marketed—especially on radio—as a youthful, high-pitched “kid singer.” Because early rock ’n’ roll reached white audiences largely through audio first, many white listeners had no idea he was Black until they saw him in person. The most