TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

image
Director(s):
Release date: January 01, 2004
Duration: 100 minutes
Add to favorites

Overview

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The interviews accompany clips from groundbreaking shows and performances by entertainment pioneers that create a timeline of the portrayal of African Americans throughout TV history.

Starring

image
Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage)
image
John Amos
(archive footage)
image
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Self (archive footage)
image
Desi Arnaz
(archive footage)