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How a group of black psychiatrists helped make Sesame Street
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The Black Psychiatrists of America was formed in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in April 1968. One year later, founding president Charles Pierce became personally involved in helping develop Sesame Street, realizing the value of television and its impact on children. As Undark magazine explains, it seemed to Pierce "that the same technology that risked creating another generation of psychically damaged black children could also be used as a radical therapeutic intervention."
TOPICS: Sesame Street, PBS, Charles Pierce, African Americans and TV, Sesame Workshop
