Antiquated show about a black maid (Hattie McDaniel) in the 1950s. McDaniel received acclaim in the past for the movie gone with the wind which is very problematic in its own way, glossing over slavery and the brutalities of the civil war. This was the first American TV show to cast an african american woman as the lead. "Beulah thus liberates the Hendersons, while staying well within her place as a stereotypical mammy. Mentioned in Victoria Johnson's Article