Why Hazel Scott Was the Beyoncé of Her Time

TVC 538.5: Jennifer Armstrong, author of When Women Invented Television, talks to Ed about how the Blacklist spelled the end for both The Goldbergs and The Hazel Scott Show; how Scott's carefully managed persona paved the way for such other sophisticated African-American women as Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, the Claire Huxtable character on The Cosby Show, and Diahann Carroll's character on Julia; and the spiritual connection between Betty White and television. When Women Invented Television, shows how Scott, White, Irna Phillips, and Gertrude Berg all paved the way for many of the forms of TV programming that we take for granted today—and how all four found themselves marginalized as television became more popular, and more lucrative, amidst the changing culture of the 1950s. Jennifer Armstrong joins us in our second hour.

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