Madeline Anderson

Pioneering filmmaker and television producer Madeline Anderson is often credited as being the first black woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film the first black woman to produce and direct a syndicated TV series the first black employee at New Yorkbased public television station National Educational Television WNET and one of the first black women to join the film editors union Anderson went on to become the inhouse producer and director for Sesame Street and The Electric Company for the Childrens Television Workshop During the early 1970s she also helped create what would become WHUTTV at Howard University the countrys first and only blackowned public television station Anderson was critical of Hollywood and preferred to work outside of that system