· US Marshal Bass Reeves · I grew up watching black and white TV. Actually, it was more like white TV in the sense that people of color rarely appeared. In the early days of television, until the last half of the 1960s during the push for civil rights, the little screen showed very few African American faces. There were a lot of westerns on the tube back in the late 50s and 60s, including Hopalong Cassidy, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and Have Gun Will Travel. My favorite show was The Lone … [Read more...] about Black and White TV without Color
