It's about how Franklin met Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang. "A Franklin ... The image was powerful — a Black child and white child together on a beach ...

Schulz, however, had been wary of including a black child in the Peanuts gang and was concerned that ... took to enroll him in exclusive, mostly white art programs as a kid.

Minnesotan Charles Schulz deserves credit for having a Black character join the “Peanuts” gang in 1968 ... any youngster would face by being the only minority in school.

when a white schoolteacher in suburban Los Angeles wrote a famous cartoonist and suggested he add a “Negro” character to the “Peanuts” gang. And he did. Now, nearly 48 years later ...

It's about how Franklin met Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the "Peanuts" gang. "A Franklin ... The image was powerful — a Black child and white child together on a beach ...