“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/2/15:
Former Burbank school teacher Harriett Glickman, now 88, wanted to do something that would make a positive impact after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968. Because she had worked with kids, and had kids of her own, Glickman was especially aware of the power of comics among the young. ‘And my feeling at the time was that I realized that black kids and white kids never saw themselves [depicted] together in the classroom,’ says Glickman.” So she wrote to the creator of “Peanuts,” Charles Schulz. Read more about how the integration of the famous strip came to pass and changed the history of comics.
