Nationality American Books Changing channels | Role Activist Name Peggy Charren | |
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Full Name Peggy Sundelle Walzer Born March 9, 1928 ( 1928-03-09 ) New York, New York, U.S. Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom, Peabody Award, TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming Nominations TCA Career Achievement Award Organizations founded Action for Children's Television | ||
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Peggy Sundelle Charren (née Walzer; March 9, 1928 – January 22, 2015) was an American activist, known as the founder of Action for Children's Television (ACT), a national child advocacy organization, in 1968. The organization was founded in an effort to encourage program diversity and eliminate commercial abuses in children's television programming.
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- Awards
- Career
- Personal life
- References
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Awards
In 1989, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded her its Trustees' Award. Her work with ACT culminated in the passage of the Children's Television Act of 1990, and she received a Peabody Award in 1991. In 1992, she disbanded ACT, announcing that it had met the objectives she had set out to accomplish. In 1995, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Career
Although denounced as an advocate for censorship by her critics, including animation writers Steve Gerber and Mark Evanier, Charren has insisted she is an outspoken critic of censorship, and has cited her stance against the American Family Association's campaigns to ban various programs. She sat on the Board of Trustees of public broadcaster WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1983, Charren became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.
Personal life
She died on January 22, 2015. In her later years, she had vascular dementia.
