Children in snow suits are a common sight during winter. But in 1962, Peter from ?The Snowy Day? was something most children in the United States had never seen before: an African American character who was the hero of his own book.
?None of the manuscripts I?d been illustrating featured any black kids ? except for token blacks in the background,? wrote author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, who died in 1983. ?My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along.?
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