Now a Soap Opera About Negroes
By Tony May
Associated Press
September 24, 1968
Philadelphia (AP) -- A recent television survey claims some 22 million persons watch television soap operas and of them, about 13.6 million are Negroes--watching how the white world lives.
They really had no choice until a few weeks ago when a petite suburban Philadelphia mother of four debuted her ABC network sudser called, One Life To Live.
The new show features not one, not two, but three Negroes who face the daily tribulations of Sudsville side by side with whites.
"I thought it was time to get the soap operas out of Wasp (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) Valley," said the writer, Mrs. Agnes Eckhardt Nixon.
Mrs. Nixon, who writes her daily scripts in her home in the Philadelphia "Main Line" suburb of Rosemont, added:
"Obviously black people watch soap operas, but that's not why I did this. I just felt it...
By Tony May
Associated Press
September 24, 1968
Philadelphia (AP) -- A recent television survey claims some 22 million persons watch television soap operas and of them, about 13.6 million are Negroes--watching how the white world lives.
They really had no choice until a few weeks ago when a petite suburban Philadelphia mother of four debuted her ABC network sudser called, One Life To Live.
The new show features not one, not two, but three Negroes who face the daily tribulations of Sudsville side by side with whites.
"I thought it was time to get the soap operas out of Wasp (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) Valley," said the writer, Mrs. Agnes Eckhardt Nixon.
Mrs. Nixon, who writes her daily scripts in her home in the Philadelphia "Main Line" suburb of Rosemont, added:
"Obviously black people watch soap operas, but that's not why I did this. I just felt it...
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