How Sesame Street Made The Wicked Witch’s Worst Nightmare Come True

Her greatest fear was scaring kids. Mr. Rogers helped defuse that fear until Sesame Street came along and made it all worse.

Linda Caroll
History of Women
Published in
6 min readFeb 22, 2023

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Wicked Witch of the West

Margaret Hamilton loved kids and animals more than anything. She’d been a kindergarten teacher for ten years before the stage called her name.

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