The native New Yorker was the first black woman to win an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, in 1981. "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985) told of a black Queens family that moved up to rich, white East Side of Manhattan, "to a dee-luxe apartment in the sky," as the theme song went.
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The Amen Corner Opened April 15, 1965 |
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