"A Noble Experiment in Human Values": The Children's Television Series Vegetable Soup and Its Initiative to Change the Environment for Racism in 1970s America.

Abstract

This article explores the creation, production, and reception of the unique, popular, and publicly-funded mid-1970s children's television series Vegetable Soup, arguing that it constitutes a specific and intriguing chapter in the history of efforts in the United States to change "the environment for racism."