biography
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Charren, Peggy
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née Walzer
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| female
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Consumer activist, born in New York City, New York, USA. She founded an art prints store (1951) and ran Quality Book Fairs (1960–5) in Newton, MA. The mother of two children, she became upset at the violence and other defects she saw on children's television programmes, and in 1968 founded Action for Children's Television in her suburban home. Her watchdog group became a national organization that worked strenuously to improve the quality of children's television. She disbanded the organization (1992) when the passage of the Children's Television Act (1990) incorporated the results of many of her goals. She wrote Changing Channels: Living Sensibly with Television (1983) and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1987). |
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