Lost LA S04E06 · Shindana Toy Company: Changing the American Doll Industry

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Explore the lasting impact of the Shindana Toy Company, created out of the need for community empowerment following the 1965 Watts uprising, whose ethnically correct black dolls forever changed the American doll industry.

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