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Mississippi officials refused to air 'Sesame Street' in 1970 because of multiracial cast
"Sesame Street," which premiered in November 1969, faced a rough road to air in the state of Mississippi. This is that story.
On April 30, 1970, members of the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television commission voted 3-2 in favor of rejecting or "banning" the children's educational TV show "Sesame Street" from airing in the state, with some unidentified commission members citing the multiracial cast as the reason for the decision.
Either way, the reality remained that, at that time, the state's only educational television (ETV) station — WMAA-TV on channel 29, broadcasting over a 65-mile range from the capital city of Jackson — was the only one out of 190 stations nationwide that did not air the show. The state's legislature established its educational TV commission earlier in 1970 and had appropriated $5.3 million toward working to expand the effort statewide.
Some sources mentioned "financial difficulties" for the delay in airing "Sesame Street" in Mississippi, with one article's author quoting William R. Smith Jr., executive director of the Jackson station. While "Sesame Street" producers Children's Television Workshop offered the program to ETV stations free of charge, the mention of "financial difficulties" reflected concerns among commission members and lawmakers who allegedly supported the show but feared that carrying the program with its multiracial cast could jeopardize the state's ETV project in the state's legislature — one that had only very recently embraced the ETV effort — before it completely launched statewide.
https://www.snopes.com/articles/469729/mississippi-sesame-street-multiracial-cast/
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