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'Wizard of Oz' Family Apologizes for Racist Editorials

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From: Morning Edition (NPR)
Date: 20060817
Author:STEVE INSKEEP

STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
08-17-2006
'Wizard of Oz' Family Apologizes for Racist Editorials

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Two descendents of the man who wrote The Wizard of Oz say they're sorry. They're in South Dakota to apologize for what L. Frank Baum wrote before his famous book.

Baum composed newspaper editorials calling for the extermination of Native Americans and his words may have helped to inspire the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890.

Here's Charles Michael Ray of South Dakota Public Radio.

CHARLES MICHAEL RAY reporting:

L. Frank Baum wrote in ...

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