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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 08:48:00 -0600
Interesting, isn't it, how Entertainment Weekly assumes that a servant in a wealthy New York City household in the early 1960s would be Black... I always assumed Ole Golly was white because she, her mother and her fiance Mr. Waldenstein all appear to be white in Fitzhugh's illustrations.
KT Horning, CCBC UW-Madison
Received on Tue 02 Jul 1996 09:48:00 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 08:48:00 -0600
Interesting, isn't it, how Entertainment Weekly assumes that a servant in a wealthy New York City household in the early 1960s would be Black... I always assumed Ole Golly was white because she, her mother and her fiance Mr. Waldenstein all appear to be white in Fitzhugh's illustrations.
KT Horning, CCBC UW-Madison
Received on Tue 02 Jul 1996 09:48:00 AM CDT
