Sam Waterston stars as a prosecutor with three children and a house run by a dynamic black housekeeper.

He scolded the black housekeepers when they tried to do their jobs.

He was the darling of a white, diversity-minded editor best known for his memoir about the black housekeeper of his childhood.

He was in a relationship with his black housekeeper even when slavery was legal.

Ellen was a black housekeeper who was hired by Archie after Edith's death.

Belle's real life revolves around Bea, the uniformed black housekeeper.

However, Patty does have a friend in the family's black, middle-aged housekeeper, Ruth.

As in the novel, a black housekeeper came daily to care for the Lee house and family.

Perhaps we should expect no better in a household that preserves the quaint social fiction that the black housekeeper is "a member of the family."

When he started taking his black "housekeeper" on day trips, she went unchallenged by members of the yacht club.