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Street Gang.(Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street)(Brief article)(Book review)
In this history of "Sesame Street," Davis writes that when the show debuted, in 1969, the goal of its creators was nothing short of righting "the inequities in our society" through the education of lower-class preschoolers. Such populist choices as an urban setting, a multiracial cast, and a catchy brand of "edutainment" reflected both the mood of the era (it should "jump and move fast and feel and sound like 1969," a producer said) and painstaking research: a series of seminars ...
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