How many blacks on the Andy Griffith show?

Answer 1

Newest After the middle of the second season, appearances of blacks in crowd scenes are largely gone. Their absence will continue for most of the original five-year run with Barney (Don Knotts), when the show was in black and white. It is important to note that there are no blacks with speaking parts during this time - NONE. They appear only in crowd scenes, running up to see Barney's car wreck or a siren blaring uncontrollably, to which they shake their heads at the antics and look dismayed. Set in rural North Carolina (NOT the Deep South), it is utterly implausible that there was not even a proverbial "shoe-shine boy" in Floyd's Barber Shop. Amazingly, though, while the Andy Griffith Show was utterly avoiding questions of race and the Civil Rights Movement, the production company responsible for the show - Desilu - was about to begin production of another show representing the conquest of discrimination - Star Trek.

New There is definitely at least one black woman on the Andy Griffith show. She could be seen as a frequent extra walking in the background. In one episode in particular called, "Barney's Replacement"during season two. Barney and his replacement are hovering over the engine of the patrol car looking for a way to stop the siren that is stuck blaring for about 10 seconds. Barneys replacement taps the condenser box to relieve the sirens wailing but not before a crowd of locals come running over. The woman closest to the camera is living proof of this controversial discussion.

OLD Incredible as it sounds, and surely in the Deep South, No! It was too touchy at the time when race riots rocked the southern part of the nation and would utterly destroy any peaceable easy-going fabric they aimed to distribute. You know this is a peaceable town even the cops are laid-back sleepy hollow types.

Answer 2

African Americans do appear in later episodes, first walking in the background and later as part of crowds. In Mayberry RFD a character is an African American.

In an explanation of the show on a documentary, the same question was asked, and the answer given was that had there been African Americans in the show in major roles and the show was to have some realism, then the show would not be in reruns today (implying that African Americans would have been mistreated in a southern town in the 1960s).

NEW: While there were a couple blacks in a few crowd scenes - mainly during the first season and a half - there were no blacks with speaking parts during the the original five-year run with Barney (Don Knotts); Appearances are limited to walking on the other side of street or running up during one of Barney's occasional car accidents or siren blasts, shaking their heads in dismay and looking perturbed at the antics.

Answer 3

of couse he does he had to black acters in matlock and onother

acter the one who played on inthe heat of the night.

Answer 4

There was one with a speaking part he played a football player that coached opie team he was also a pianist when opie was deciding to either play the piano or football

Answer 5

Yes. There was a black lady in the background. She also appeared in the movie The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.