Why did it take a random fan letter to get a black kid into Peanuts?
In 1968, two weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a white schoolteacher and mother of three from the suburbs of Los Angeles wrote to the most successful cartoonist of the time, and one of the top entertainers of any type, Charles Schulz. She suggested that he add a black character to his immensel…
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