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On this day, in 1951, Amos 'n' Andy premiered on television [1]
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Date: 2022-06-29 12:02:04+00:00
I watched re-runs of this as a child in the 50s, of course with no understanding of the complexity or background. It seemed fairly funny, but as a kid in the 50s I’d watch any damn thing. As I recall there were no white characters in the shows; it was just ordinary sitcom foolishness, but with Black actors and accents.
It’s also worth noting that the radio version was insanely popular, so much so that (perhaps apocryphally) water use in big cities declined to near zero during the broadcast, and you could walk empty streets listening to it playing out everyone’s windows.
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