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The superstar rise and sudden fall of Sesame Street’s ‘black Elmo’

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In 1970, alongside Cookie Monster and Big Bird, a new Muppet appeared on “Sesame Street.” Roosevelt Franklin was a young boy with a shock of black hair atop his head, dressed in a striped turtleneck — and although he was technically purple in color, he was explicitly created to be black.

Nearly from his first appearance, Roosevelt Franklin exploded in popularity on a level similar to his felt cousin Elmo in the 1990s.

He earned his own segment and even released a popular album. And then his appearances slowly diminished, until by 1975, he had all but disappeared.

The story of this mostly forgotten Muppet, as well as the origin of “Sesame Street” and other children’s programs, unspools in “Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution

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