The company has no archive. This may help conceal its embarrassments, but it has also buried its achievements-such as subsidizing Shindana Toys in response to the 1965 Watts riots. The African-American-run, South Central Los Angeles-based company produced ethnically correct playthings long before they were fashionable.
( M.G. Lord )
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