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The name Sambo has a long painful history behind it.

The book Little Black Sambo features caricatures of black people and harmful stereotypes in its illustrations.

So when two business owners decided to use the name for their restaurant, it didn't go over so well.

Many believe that the restaurant's racist history eventually shut them down, but did it.

Far more went on behind the scenes at Sambo's, illegal kickbacks, pyramid schemes, all of it making Sambo's a perfect storm of litigation when they finally closed.

Today we're going to untangle Sambo's controversy and uncover what made them shut their doors of over 1,000 restaurant locations.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Prism of the past.

We're going to discuss the divisive history of Sambo's restaurant and the racial stereotypes that it

perpetuated throughout the late 1950s and into the early 1980s.

As a brief content warning, we will be talking about racism and harmful stereotypes.

So if that's not something that you're in the head space to hear right now,

then that's your heads up that this is not the topic for you.

With that being said let's get into it.

Helen Bannerman wrote and illustrated the story of Little Black Samboe as a gift for her children.

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