'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
But the more important history it made came as soon as its first episode, 50 years ago this week: CBS' “The Jeffersons” marked the first Black-family comedy ... first Black sitcom since “Sanford and ...