'The Jeffersons' at 50: How Norman Lear changed the way Black people were represented on TV
Norman Lear's "The Jeffersons," an "All in the Family" spinoff, was a record-setting Black comedy. But it made important history in other ways.
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‘The Jeffersons’ At 50: A Look Back At The Classic Sitcom
(Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) Flash to the end of season one and The Jeffersons were “movin’ on up” with a fourth place finish in the Nielsen ratings, on average, for the season ...
'The Jeffersons' at 50: Looking back at a classic sitcom that changed TV
Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...
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'The Jeffersons' at 50: How Norman Lear changed the way Black people were represented on TV
“The Jeffersons” moved on up to primetime to change all that ... While early episodes addressed the social politics stirred by their move to Manhattan ‒ stories about identity, invoking ...