Franklin, the first Black character in “Peanuts,” was introduced in 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was slain.

Of all the Peanuts characters, Lucy van Pelt is certainly ... Schulz was so moved by the ideas Glickman had that he not only wrote Franklin into the comic strips, but he threatened his comic ...

In the first three strips featuring the new character, Franklin and Charlie talk about their fathers, baseball and building sand castles. That was the start of integrating the “Peanuts” world ...

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The Miami Children’s Museum marks the moment with an exhibition that includes Snoopy, Lucy and more that will travel across the country for almost a decade. By Shivani Vora This article is part ...