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Harlett O'Dowd  
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 More options Oct 18 2006, 2:36 pm
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From: "Harlett O'Dowd" <chris.conne...@worldspan.com>
Date: 18 Oct 2006 11:36:11 -0700
Local: Wed, Oct 18 2006 2:36 pm
Subject: Re: Terribly OT - the last of blackface
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Gary Mack wrote:
> The guys who did Amos & Andy on radio - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll - were white. But the actors on the TV version were all black. The tv show would never have gotten on the air if white guys were doing black face.

I'm sure that's true, but some of the TV cast had worked on the radio
show  and/or worked in blackface elsewhere. And blacks in blackface
wasn't uncommon. Bert Williams spent most of his career in blackface.

 
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