His crayon is purple – but is Harold a Black boy?
“Prior to 1998, Harold of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ was depicted as racially ambiguous…As Johnson’s biographer and a scholar of children’s literature, I started to wonder about Harold’s race…I discovered that not everyone has seen Harold as white – possibly, not even Johnson himself.”
https://theconversation.com/his-crayon-is-purple-but-is-harold-a-black-boy-236749
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