Rebecca joins 14 other historical dolls in the series — from Kaya, a Nez Perce girl set in 1764, to African-American Addy, a Civil War doll, to World War II-era Molly, part of an Irish immigrant ...

Rowland noted the lack of age-appropriate dolls for pre-adolescent girls; most dolls on the market at the time were either ...

Her cowrie shell necklace (an accessory included on the doll) had major significance, as it hearkened back to her African ...

“My start was collecting baby dolls and of course collecting African-American dolls as a way to ... “This doll was patterned after the little girl that was in her comic strip named Patti ...