I recently saw 'Minstrel Man' (a 1977 TV film) on YouTube and your point well taken, saw just how blacks were treated (particularly in the South) in the 1890s. And as soon as one takes a stand, he's lynched!! No wonder few blacks except for the most daring, like Elijah Muhammad, ever tried to uprise again until Rosa…

Come to think of it, in the same season, they did 'Top Cat', a thinly disguised version of 'Sgt. Bilko'.