Madison Wilson, a rising third-grader, is on a mission to get multicultural crayons and books featuring diverse characters into California classrooms.
"[Madison] said, 'Mommy why don't they show brown people in movies and books? Do they not like brown people?'" mom Vashti Wilson told Good Morning America. "I said, 'That's why people like you need to take steps and write books."
Vashti then helped her daughter start a GoFundMe called, "Help Fill Madi's Treasure Box" to raise money for multi-cultural books, the new Crayola crayon pack, "Colors of the World," and construction paper so that "kids will always be able to represent themselves accurately in classroom projects, and see people that look like them in the books they read."
The fundraiser, which was created on June 19, has now raised over $20,000.
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