Lucy Van Pelt is one of Peanuts' most beloved characters, but before her debut, Violet Gray played a role similar to hers.

When Reed was a child, he was the voice actor for the character of Franklin in the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special, the first Black character on the show, based on Charles Schulz's Peanuts cartoon.

8 things you didn’t know about Charles Schulz and ‘Peanuts’ "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz knew the real-life Charlie Brown, and other things that might surprise you about the popular ...