NPR's Robert Siegel talks to author Julia Lee about her book Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals. She chronicles the story of the African-American actors in the films. They were ...

Carl Switzer, who played Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" comedy series of the 1930s, was fatally shot in 1959. He was 31. ... Switzer was a bartender and a hunting dog trainer.