Soon after Barbie was first introduced in 1959 ... “That was a little act of revolution,” Dr. Patricia Turner, an African American studies professor and dean of UCLA College, said in the ...
In 1967, Mattel introduced the first African American Barbie, but the moulds were the same as the original white dolls. In 1997, Mattel released a black Barbie in partnership with Oreo (she held ...
Barbie campaigned for equal rights in support of her oldest friend Christie, the first African-American Barbie released in 1968. The big hair craze of the early ’90s prompted Mattel to create ...