Name: Malcolm X
Made by and When: Olmec Toys, Inc., 1994
Material: Plastic with jointed head and arms
Height: 7 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Sculpted and painted red hair, brown-painted eyes, open/closed mouth with sculpted and painted teeth, and painted-red mustache and goatee
Clothes: Sculpted and painted-on slate blue suit, white shirt, black necktie, sculpted and painted-on black shoes; molded-on browline eyeglasses
Other: Item #10026, Malcolm X, is the second figure in Olmec’s Our Powerful Past series. The package includes the 7-inch figure with posable head and arms, a podium with a microphone, and a collectible card on the back of the box. The back of the box also includes a biography of Malcolm X. An image of Malcolm X serves as the backdrop of the inside box panel.
A figure of Harriet Tubman was to follow the Malcolm X figure. It is unknown if the company produced the Tubman figure.
A headshot image of the founder of Olmec Toys, Yla Eason and her son, Menelik, is featured on the back of the box along with “The Olmec Story.” Follow this link to learn “How Yla Eason’s Olmec Toys Reshaped the Multicultural Doll Market.”
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