Performer(s) Appeared in Franklin is a character from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is an African-American boy who lives in the same neighborhood as Peppermint Patty and Marcie. Introduced in the comic in 1968, he is good friends with Charlie Brown. Of the five animated Christmas productions based on Peanuts, Franklin appears in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown and I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.
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| - Performer(s) Appeared in Franklin is a character from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is an African-American boy who lives in the same neighborhood as Peppermint Patty and Marcie. Introduced in the comic in 1968, he is good friends with Charlie Brown. Of the five animated Christmas productions based on Peanuts, Franklin appears in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown and I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.
- A Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman wrote to Schulz in the spring of 1968, urging him to introduce a black character into Peanuts. This began a correspondence between Schulz and Glickman that led to Schulz's creation of Franklin. In an interview in 1997, Schulz discussed receiving a letter from a Southern editor "who said something about, 'I don't mind you having a black character, but please don't show them in school together.' Because I had shown Franklin sitting in front of Peppermint Patty. [...] I didn't even answer him." Franklin's skin color was mentioned in The Charlie Brown Dictionary, a picture dictionary using the Peanuts characters; he was referred to in the definition of "black" in showing a picture of him talking on the telephone, where the color of the telepho
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- Carl Steven
- Corey Padnos
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- Tom Muller
- Andreas Glantschnig
- Christopher Donohone
- Duncan Watson
- Hakeem Adbum-Samad
- Jessica Nwafor
- Kevin Brando
- Mar Mar
- Robin Reed
- Rocky Reilly
- Ronald Hendrix
- Sean Mendelson
- Stephen Scarpulo
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| - A Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman wrote to Schulz in the spring of 1968, urging him to introduce a black character into Peanuts. This began a correspondence between Schulz and Glickman that led to Schulz's creation of Franklin. In an interview in 1997, Schulz discussed receiving a letter from a Southern editor "who said something about, 'I don't mind you having a black character, but please don't show them in school together.' Because I had shown Franklin sitting in front of Peppermint Patty. [...] I didn't even answer him." Franklin's skin color was mentioned in The Charlie Brown Dictionary, a picture dictionary using the Peanuts characters; he was referred to in the definition of "black" in showing a picture of him talking on the telephone, where the color of the telephone is black. The description also says that "black may also refer to Franklin's skin tone, which is also known as a Negro person." In a Weekend Update commentary on a 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live, Chris Rock, who incorrectly stated that Franklin had not said a single word for 25 years, related his own childhood experience as the only black student in his grade school class.
- Performer(s) Appeared in Franklin is a character from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is an African-American boy who lives in the same neighborhood as Peppermint Patty and Marcie. Introduced in the comic in 1968, he is good friends with Charlie Brown. Of the five animated Christmas productions based on Peanuts, Franklin appears in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown and I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.
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