Post-war emergence of better roles for African-American performers in the movies 1945

Truman's Civil Rights NAACP Convention Montgomerry Commission Report 1951 bus boycott 1949 1955

Beulah (ABC TV). The first nationally Beulah (Marlin Hurt, CBS-Radio) broadcast TV series starring an African-American in the leading role.

Amos 'n' Andy polemic

The Pittsburg courrier defends the show NAACP's threat to boycott the show Amos 'n' Andy on TV <------Amos 'n' Andy on the radio (CBS). First television series with an all-black Syndicated reruns cast.

Radio origins The Minstrelsy Era "Black sitcoms"

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"White sitcoms" Radio origins Family Comedies 60s: Rise of the Black Movement and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" measures : War on Poverty and the "Ghettos" problem

The Negro Family, A Case for Newark Report of the National National Action Riots 1967 Advisory aka Commission Economic The on Civil Opportunity Moynihan Disorders aka Report Johnson Act appoints the Kerner 1964 1965 Report Greensboro the Kerner Montgomerry Division sit-in Commission Feb 1968 bus boycott Voting Street (June) 1960 Civil Rights Act Riot 1967 Martin Luther Rights 1965 (Chicago) Act King's 1966 Detroit assassination 1964 Riots Watts Riot Apr 1968 1967 1965

Of Black America (Documentary Series, CBS) 1968

The Nonrecognition era The Assimilassionist Era

1956 1958 1960 1962 1964 1966 1968

Family Comedies Rural comedies 60s: Rise of the Black Movement and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" measures :

FCC measures for minorities

The Congress amends Report of the the Communications Act National to authorize the FCC to Advisory The FCC established the Minority grant all licenses via a Commission Ownership Task Force (researching lottery system. Lottery on Civil ways to include minorities in the preferences were to be Disorders aka broadcasting industry) awarded to minorities. the Kerner 1978 1981

The FCC creates the Advisory Committee Martin Luther on Alternative Financing for Minority assassination Opportunities in Telecommunications 1981

The Color Purple is published 1982 Of Black America (Documentary Series, CBS)

Diff'rent Strokes (NBC and ABC) Julia The Jeffersons (All in the Family's spin-off, CBS) Ebony lauds the first television program to feature an interracial married couple show Protests against the show Good Times (Maude's spin-off, CBS) 1970 Julia (NBC) Sanford and Sons (NBC)

The Assimilassionist Era Social Relevancy and Ridiculed Black Subjectivity aka "The Lear Era"

1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982

Social and Political Domestic comedy and Teen-oriented comedies The networks have cancelled 13 dramas and Sitcoms featuring Black casts because The Congress amends the Communications Act The United to authorize the FCC to States Supreme grant all licenses via a Court rules lottery system. Lottery constitutional Los preferences were to be two FCC policies Angeles awarded to minorities. designed to Riots foster minority 1992 ownership of broadcast The FCC creates the stations Advisory Committee on Alternative Jun 1990 Financing for Minority Opportunities in Telecommunications

Frank's Place case The Color Purple is Tim Reid, published star and 1982 co-executive producer, receives an NAACP Image Award The Wayans Brothers (WB) Frank's Place (CBS) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (NBC) Cancelled Diff'rent Strokes (NBC and ABC) because of Family Matters (spin-off of Perfect Strangers, poor ABC and CBS shortly) The Jeffersons (All in the Family's spin-off, CBS) ratings. first television program to feature an interracial married couple Sister, Sister (WB) A Different World (Cosby Show's spin-off). High level of black representation in key decision-making positions. In The House (UPN)

The Cosby Show (NBC) Martin (FOX, produced by HBO)

Era of Black Family and Diversity Social Relevancy and Ridiculed Black Subjectivity aka "The Lear Era" or "The Cosby Years" The Neo-Minstrelsy Era

1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994

Family Warmth Comedies

Family Ties (NBC) The networks have cancelled 13 dramas and Sitcoms featuring Black casts because of poor ratings while sitcoms proliferate on the upstart networks. 1998

Dancing in September The "slave-com" (Reggie Rock controversy Bythewood) Protest against 2000 the series oustide of the Paramount Bamboozled Studios (sept) (Spike Lee) 1998 2000 The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer (UPN) 1998

The Wayans Brothers (WB)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (NBC)

Family Matters (spin-off of Perfect Strangers, The Bernie Mac Show (FOX) ABC and CBS shortly) My Wife and Kids (ABC) Sister, Sister (WB) A Different World (Cosby Show's spin-off). High level of black The Parkers (UPN) In The House (UPN)

Martin (FOX, produced by HBO) For Your Love (NBC shortly; WB)

The Neo-Minstrelsy Era Contemporary Comedies

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Contemporary Comedies : Unconventional families <------The Aldrich Family (NBC Radio) The Aldrich Family (NBC TV)

The Ruggles (ABC)

Father Knows Best on Radio Father Knows Best on TV (CBS)

I Love Lucy (CBS) (Urban Comedy)

The Honeymooners (DuMont and CBS)

Post-war steep rise in morgage rates, birth rates, and growth of mass-produced suburbs Color TV in the US 1945 1953

Legend Culture

State

Economy The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)

My Three Sons (ABC) initiated the trend of the widowed parent raising a family. Father Knows Best on TV (CBS)

I Love Lucy (CBS) (Urban Comedy)

The Honeymooners (DuMont and CBS)

Miss American Censorship codes demands that the single parent in television's representations would not be divorced Pageant protest: The Women's Rising divorce rates liberation Assassination movemet is born 1960 of President Sep 1968 Kennedy Nov 1963

Lyndon Johnson declares "war on Establishment poverty" of the Office in his of Housing State of and Urban the Development Union 1965 address 1964 The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS) All in The Family (CBS)

Maude (All in The Family's spin-off) My Three Sons (ABC) initiated the trend of the widowed parent raising a family.

The Doris Day Show (CBS) Happy Days (ABC)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) Three's Company (ABC)

Miss American Censorship codes demands that the single parent in television's representations would not be divorced Pageant protest: An America Family The Women's (PBS) liberation 1973 movemet is born Sep 1968 ownership, profits, service Family Ties (NBC) In Living Color (FOX)

Cheers (NBC)

Perfect Strangers (ABC) Living Single (FOX)

Networks' crisis WB and UPN Fox Broadcasting Writers' created Company (4th strike 1995 television network) 1988 Transformations in created ownership, profits, service 1986 delivery, technology and regulations.

Cable TV introduced, Rise of a fourth television network. Decline in total viewers for the Big Three. Friends (NBC)

Frasier (NBC)

Living Single (FOX)

WB and UPN created 1995