Member Since: 10/29/2006
Band Members: The character Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle ) had been Maude Findlay's housekeeper on Maude. In early 1974, the Florida Evans character and her husband James (referred to as "Henry Evans" on Maude) were transported to an apartment in a housing project (implicitly the infamous Cabrini-Green projects, shown in the opening and closing credits but never mentioned by name on the show ) in a poor, African American neighborhood in inner-city Chicago.Florida Evans lived with her husband James (John Amos ) and their three children J.J. (Jimmie Walker ), Thelma (Bern Nadette Stanis) , and Michael (Ralph Carter ). When the series began, J.J. and Thelma were seventeen and sixteen years old, respectively, and Michael, called "the militant midget" by his father due to his passionate activism, was eleven years old. Their exuberant neighbor, and Florida's best friend, was Willona Woods (played by Ja'net Du Bois ), a recent divorcée.
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Record Label: The Projects
Type of Label: Major