Radio Rootz' This Day in History

• produced by Jackie Kook
• in 2008

Due to its huge success as a local radio series, the show "Amos n' Andy" debuted on the NBC Blue Network, and three months later expanded again in its coast-to-coast debut. The two white men who created Amos n' Andy voiced the shows black characters mocking black dialect and using minstrel-style stereotypes to produce one of the most popular situation comedies in the United States. Although a couple of activists and groups protested the Amos n' Andy show due to its racially offensive material, the show continued to be successful well into the 50's.