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"I don't mind you having a black character, but please don't show them in school together." - Southern Reader, 1968 "Either you print it just the way | draw it or I quit. How's that?" - Charles Shultz

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"I don't mind you having a black character, but please don't show them in school together." - Southern Reader, 1968 "Either you print it just the way | draw it or I quit. How's that?" - Charles Shultz
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Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 16:14:36 JST Ned Yeung

The reception to the character of Franklin in 1968, and the origin of why the character was created (a letter from a White Los Angeles school teacher following the assassination of MLK Jr.), plus the first comic strip Franklin appeared in, in 1968.
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