“Everybody got their thing except Franklin!” he said on “ Saturday Night Live” in 1992. One of them was Barbara Brandon-Croft, whose comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” became the first by an African-American woman to be nationally syndicated in the mainstream press. Nothing aside from the color of his skin set him apart from the other children in the strip.Įven though Franklin was a quiet presence, readers noticed him. On July 31, 1968, Franklin Armstrong appeared in “Peanuts” for the first time, returning a beach ball Charlie Brown had lost in the ocean and then helping him build a sand castle. Glickman at the beginning of July that she should look out for a strip to be published toward the end of the month. Glickman protested housing discrimination, wrote that adding a black character, without great fanfare and “in a casual day-to-day scene,” would allow black children to see themselves in popular culture and “suggest racial amity.” One of those friends, Kenneth Kelly, a neighbor with whom Ms. Schulz if she might share his letter with some black friends to get their input, and he agreed. Many cartoonists, he wrote, “would like very much to be able to do this, but each of us is afraid that it would look like we were patronizing our Negro friends.”
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