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Of Transgender Relationships Sat January 28, 2012 'The Snowy
Day': Breaking Color Barriers, Quietly One morning many years
ago, a little boy in Brooklyn named Peter woke up to an amazing
sight: fresh snow. Peter is the hero of the classic children's
book by Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day, which turns 50 this
year. Peter has a red snowsuit, a stick just right for knocking
snow off of trees, and a snowball in his pocket. And, though
this is never mentioned in the text, Peter is African-American.
"It wasn't important. It wasn't the point," Deborah Pope tells
weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. Pope is the
executive director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. "The point
is that this is a beautiful