Martin Luther King, Jr.

Name: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Made by and When: Olmec Toys, Inc., 1992

Material: Plastic with jointed head and arms

Height: 6 inches

Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Sculpted and painted black hair, black painted eyes, open/closed mouth with sculpted and painted teeth, and painted black mustache

Clothes: Sculpted and painted-on blue suit, white shirt, dark red necktie, sculpted and painted-on black shoes

Other: Item #10025, Martin Luther King, Jr., is the first figure in Olmec’s Our Powerful Past series. The package includes the 6-inch figure with posable head and arms, a podium with a microphone, and an 18-minute cassette tape of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech spoken on August 28, 1963, in front of the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of more than 200,000 people. Dr. King’s biography and a printed transcript of the speech are on the back of the box. Images of Dr. King serve as the backdrop of the inside box panel and on both sides of the box.

A headshot image of the founder of Olmec Toys, Yla Eason and her son, Menelik, is featured on the back of the box. Follow this link to learn “How Yla Eason’s Olmec Toys Reshaped the Multicultural Doll Market.”

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