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    That diversity also got the show banished from the airwaves in Mississippi in 1970. "In the late 1960s, there were only two shows where you could see a multiracial cast: there was Sesame Street and there was Star Trek" says Matthew Johnson, a media education specialist with the Ottawa-based Media Awareness Network. Full Article at Vancouver Sun
    In the late 1960s, there were only two shows where you could see a multiracial cast: there was Sesame Street and there was Star Trek
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
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Sesame Street at 40: Still breaking new ground
  1. We wouldn't have people who were willing to risk trying to create really good stuff that grown-ups could watch along with their kids without Sesame Street.
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  2. The human actors, the characters themselves, the writers — they've created a place where people want to be and they still want to be there, it hasn't changed much over the years ... We've gone to different places in it, but that really hasn't changed. It's still a place you're happy to visit.
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  3. I think people recognize that Sesame Street is something bigger than creating a cute children's television program, that it really has the power to transform the way children think about themselves, the way they think about others, the way they enter school
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  4. They actually changed the character of television
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  5. It's just a sign of the times.
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  6. We just couldn't be happier and prouder with the way it's all come together. From the minute you turn on that first day of Season 40, you will see a brand-new show, but all the heart and essence of Sesame Street is still intact
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  7. The really courageous choices Sesame Street made were in the first 10 or 20 years of its production: the multicultural, multiracial cast wasn't something that was introduced when America was ready for it; it was introduced at a time when it was a very unusual thing to see.
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  8. We were accused of being fast-paced and creating short attention spans in kids, (but) when you go back 40 years later to watch those early episodes, they're so slow!
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago
  9. Sesame Street really introduced the whole notion that you could use media towards educational impact, and that was a very revolutionary concept in 1969
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 1 month ago

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