Almost 50 years after the NAACP first condemned the television show "Amos 'n'Andy," civil rights activists protested outside a Los Angeles radio station Thursday for merely considering the ...

The Amos 'n' Andy radio program, which began in the late 1920s, and the television show that followed in the early 1950s have all but been erased from modern popular culture. For good reason.

At the peak of Amos 'n' Andy's success, 40 million listeners - a third of America - tuned in six nights a week, making it the longest-running and most popular radio program in broadcast history.

Trending on RT Awards Leaderboard Rotten Tomatoes Awards Best New Horror Movies TV Premiere Dates The Amos and Andy Show: Season 2, Episode 8 Genre: Comedy Air Date: Oct 16, 1952 Network: CBS ...

Some Italian-American organizations and politicians are outraged over the award-winning HBO hoodlum hit, “The Sopranos.” I understand how they feel, even though I am a big fan of the show.

We all should be appalled at the crudeness and discriminatory words used in the Amos ‘n’ Andy series but it was so popular among whites that the program was inducted into the Radio Hall of ...

Object Details Distributed by Pepsodent Company, American, 1915 - 1944 Description A color paper doll depicting Andy Brown from the Amos 'n' Andy radio show sitting behind a wooden desk. The man is ...