from slavery to the Reconstruction and Jim Crow to the beginnings of the civil rights movement. Many of the earliest dolls featured in the show were created by enslaved or formerly enslaved Black ...

Cocoa Doll was previously selected for the Black List's Muslim List. Yusuf wrote and directed the indie, which was inspired by caricatures of Black people from the Jim Crow era not lost to history.

Upton based the character on a black minstrel doll she'd played with "roughly" as a child while living in New York, using him as a target for rubber balls, according to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist ...