Learn, Baby, Learn the Shindana Toy Factory’s Legacy of Black Pride
By
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Illustrated by Esther J. Stimphat
My excitement about this book commenced when I learned of its publication by email from the author. The excitement increased after receiving my copy directly from the author, and it escalated even further after I viewed the front cover, which illustrates Black children enjoying Shindana’s dolls Kim in formal attire, Career Girl Wanda, and J.J., along with Slade Super Agent action figure.
After opening the hardcover and viewing the first three pages
of colorful Shindana doll illustrations by Esther J. Stimphat, I was filled
with joy to realize others, both familiar and unfamiliar with the company’s
rich history, will rediscover or discover its legacy of Black pride and what
prompted the founders to create this historic doll company—the first to mass-produce ethnically correct Black dolls.
Readers will discover the names of former businesses that
operated in what became the Shindana Doll Factory. Sherman's poetic historical account
of the people who migrated West from the South seeking better living conditions
and what they found explains the conditions that led to the 1965 Watts Rising.
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