Jonathan Reed was Davey Hansen's close friend in the Lutheran stop action animation cartoon Davey and Goliath.
As an African-American he was perhaps the first African-American character to appear in a television cartoon, and one of the first African-American characters to appear as a friend of a television show's (white) lead character.
His father was a pharmacist. Jonathan's race only became an issue in the episode, Different. His character was voiced by Hal Smith.
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