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How a ‘Gang’ of rebels and civil rights activists created ‘Sesame Street’
will be televised — on a kids’ show, no less, according to a new documentary.“Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” in select theaters nationwide on Friday and inspired by a Michael Davis book, explores how a team of “rebels” had the wild idea to educate kids through the democratizing medium of TV — and create a world inspired by the civil rights movement that still resonates nearly 52 years on.“It was like a ripple effect: pulling people in until they got a dream team of individuals who used the power of television and creativity and really purposeful intention to do something that had never been done before,” Ellen Scherer Crafts, who produced the documentary with her husband Trevor Crafts, told The Post.
