11/28/2025
repost from Franklin finally speaks out about being sat alone, segregated on the other side of the table during the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special. ✊🏽😂🤣
In the last 20 years, viewers of the special episode have joked that Franklin seems to be left out in the cold during the Thanksgiving meal because as the only main Black character, he was seated in a beach chair by himself on one side of the table away from the other characters.
Franklin is the first Black fictional character in the comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. He was Introduced on July 31, 1968.
On April 15, 1968, a Los Angeles school teacher named Harriet Glickman wrote to Schulz (11 days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.), urging him to introduce a black character into Peanuts.
On April 26, Schulz wrote back, saying that he had thought about this, but was afraid of "patronizing" our Negro friends.
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.
In February 2024, Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin, a special revolving around Franklin's introduction to Charlie Brown and his friends, was released. - Wikipedia
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