Blanche Seale Hunt Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Blanche Seale Hunt was born on 18 March, 1912 in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S., is a writer. Discover Blanche Seale Hunt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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His wife is Eugene A. Hunt (m. 1937-1981)

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Award-winning poet Shane McCrae's 2014 Forgiveness Forgiveness explores identity, race, family and abuse through interactions with Little Brown Koko. The book's main character, a black man, finds a copy of the children's book in his grandparents' home and deals with questions of identity and race represented by Little Brown Koko.

Little Brown Koko books sold more than 600,000 copies and were part of many children's memories in positive and negative ways. Wesley McNair, poet laureate of Maine (2011–2016) has shared fond memories of the Little Brown Koko stories his mother read to him and his siblings. He imagined he identified with Little Brown Koko because both had "mamas", no father visible in their home lives, and descriptions of "sumptuous" food McNair's family lacked. The first book McNair created was a scrapbook of Little Brown Koko short stories.

Hunt died on April 7, 1973. Her services were held at the Wellston Church of Christ, with burial at Carney Cemetery in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Hunt was survived by her husband, Eugene, and son.

The use of Hunt's story "Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon" in a Waterloo, Iowa, junior high school class sparked protests in 1972. Alice Margaret Hayes, a teacher at West Junior High School since 1945, read aloud the story to her speech and drama class, as she had for over a decade. The school's student body of 1,200 included 45 African American students. One of Hayes' students complained to school officials that the story was inappropriate. On May 24, twenty-five African American parents, students and community members staged a sit-in in Hayes' classroom saying that reading the story in class was "demeaning" and "racist in nature" and demanded she be dismissed. The principal agreed the Little Brown Koko story was inappropriate and suspended the teacher. The next day, white students protested the suspension and refused to attend classes. Later in the day, African American parents and students occupied the school administration building and barred the superintendent in his office until law enforcement freed him. Thirty-two protesters were arrested and charged with trespassing. On May 26, the school board rescinded the suspension, but Hayes declined to return to teach for the remainder of the school year.

In 1964, Hunt published two volumes of Little Brown Koko Bible Stories from the Old Testaments with illustrations by Bradley Whitfield. The illustrations again featured black characters with exaggerated-sized lips and eyes. The biblical figures appear to be Caucasian and did not have distorted features.

Hunt selected Sybil Fudge and Jody Hawkins, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and graduate of the Famous Artists School, to illustrate the updated collection of stories. In 1959, Little Brown Koko at Work and Play and Little Brown Koko's Pets and Playmates were published by C.E.I Publishing.

In the early 1950s, a new editor at The Household Magazine repositioned the magazine from family-focused to appeal to adult women and the Little Brown Koko feature was discontinued.

Hunt was appointed postmaster for the Fallis Post Office, Lincoln County, Oklahoma in 1948 and served twenty one years until retirement in 1969. She also served a term as president of the Oklahoma League of Postmasters.

The stories became popular nationwide. Responding to letters from children, parents and teachers, The Household Magazine through Capper Publications, selected several Little Brown Koko stories to place in book format in 1940. Household editors also published Little Brown Koko coloring books, a mechanical bank, patterns for children's clothes, rugs, tea towels potholders, quilts, doorstops and yard fixtures. Little Brown Koko stories were read aloud during library story times and even featured on radio programs. The first two books sold 500,000 copies. Hunt received 1.25 cents royalty for each of the first two books.

During the 1940s and 1950s, when Little Brown Koko was most popular, children's books with authentic and positive images and stories about African American children and families were rare. Modern scholarship in children's literature, specifically African American children's literature, recognizes that Little Brown Koko stories were not alone in depicting African Americans in stereotypes, with a focus on entertaining white audiences and were often cherished artifacts within families.

In 1937, Hunt married Eugene A. Hunt, a fellow educator. Eugene Hunt also cultivated a commercial iris garden, offering for sale more than 150 commercial varieties. Each spring, one publication reported, hundreds would come to the Hunt home to purchase flowers and meet the author of the Little Brown Koko stories.

From 1935, The Household Magazine published 197 monthly Little Brown Koko stories. Topeka, Kansas, artist Dorothy M. Wagstaff (Arens) illustrated each of the Little Brown Koko stories in Household. Wagstaff illustrated for other children's magazines such as Home Art and Wee Wisdom.

Blanche Seale Hunt (1912–1973) was the creator of the Little Brown Koko series of children stories, which initially appeared monthly in The Household Magazine for more than a decade. In full-length book form, Little Brown Koko titles sold more than 600,000 copies.

Blanche Seale Hunt was born in 1912 to Rufus and Pearl Dryman Seale in Fort Myers, Florida. She was two years older than her brother, Daniel. The family later relocated to Lincoln County in central Oklahoma. Hunt started teaching in 1934 and taught thirteen years at different Lincoln County school districts at Fallis, Mt. Vernon and Wellston schools.