Shindana Toy Company: Changing the American Doll Industry | Lost LA | Season 4, Episode 6 | KCET
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- The Watts riots (also known as the Watts Rebellion or Uprising) left South Los Angeles in social and economic distress. In its wake, Operation Bootstrap, a non-profit community-based organization was formed, with hopes of facilitating change through community empowerment. This episode explores the lasting impact of one Operation Bootstrap initiative, the Shindana Toy Company, which left a lasting mark on the American doll industry by manufacturing ethnically correct black dolls.
00:00-01:31 Introduction
01:31-05:42 Dolls from Shindana Toy Company
05:42-12:47 Shindana Toy Company and Operation Bootstrap
12:47-22:06 Impact of Operation Bootstrap on Community
22:06-25:25 Political Vision of Operation Bootstrap
25:25-25:55 Conclusion
25:55-26:40 Credits
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My brother and sister in law both worked at Shindana in the mid/late 70's.
I’m white as snow and I wanted these beautiful dolls in the 70s as a kid! My favorite doll was Julia Barbie!😍😍
Once again shows the smallest things can have the biggest impact. I found this documentary to be very interesting and touching. 👍
I grew up in South LA. I live in Pomona now, but, we own several Shindana dolls. My daughter plays with them! She loves them! ❤ thanks for sharing this important LA history!
Thanks for sharing this.
Great doc!! Hopefully today more communities learn from this efforts to get inspired and do proyects like this to uplift their communities as this did so many years ago.
This is soo amazing to do this documentary! I am sharing this with so many people!! Thank you!!
Bought a NIB 1969 Shindana Malaika Doll at the Goodwill 8 years ago. Finally looking up the history. Very important historical company that emboldened black Americans.
Those doll sewers have the patience of saints
Baby Nancy was my very 1st doll, she was my moms but she stuck her in the playroom and I still have Nancy now 35+ years later!
I love this! Thanks for making this 😃
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Before "Learn Baby Learn" should be "Yearn Baby Yearn". And finally "Earn Baby Earn".
I wish there was a way a company can reproduce these dolls for commemoration. Especially Wanda. She’s beautiful. She’s way before my generation (I was born in 2001) but she’s so beautiful and hard to find I’d love to own one
what type of job do you do i might be interested in some think similar
Do this toys dilever to sri lanka mother and baby toy shop
They dolls look strange to me lol
Check out Talking Tamu. She's a beautiful little girl with an Afro. I had one when I was little that was passed down from my older sister and just bid on--and won--another! She's a sweetie pie!
My mother went to school with her little doll from a previous era when she was in elementary school in the 1950s and people disparagingly called her a "N----- lover," but she didn't mind, she still has that doll!
It never mattered that we were Caucasian. The Black dolls were unique and reminded us that all people are equal--even dolls!
Born raised Compton, Watts, L.A. we loved and wished for a Shindana Doll….Afro/Hair and skin tone like us. Civil Rights Struggle and Black Pride was front street then 😌 trying times for sure. We embraced our Afrocentric Selves. ✊🏽