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At the National Black Doll Museum, a collection stuffed with history
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At the National Black Doll Museum, a collection stuffed with history
The first Black doll Debra Britt ever received was not, in fact, Black. Dolls with skin tones akin to hers were rare at the time, so her grandmother improvised, submerging a white vinyl doll in black dye to darken its pale exterior.
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