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Article: Positive Images For African-American Children
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- The New York Beacon
- Article date:
- August 7, 1996
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Hazel Smith
New York Beacon, The
08-07-1996
Positive Images For African-American Children.
Marilyn Hunter, Rose Abrams-Williams and Harriet Abrams took what could be discerned as a troubling episode in the growth of African-American children and turned it into something positive.
What would you do if you're an African-American mother and your five-year-old daughter asked for a Caucasian doll for Christmas because it was pretty and, further asked, "When am I going to turn white?"
After this experience between Rose and her five-year-old daughter; she was talking to Marilyn, "and we were concerned there was nothing out there for African-American children. So we decided to make a video that would ...