Barbie just released dolls in the likeness of Rosa Parks and Sally Ride to honor these groundbreaking women and teach young girls about their herstory.
For Women’s Equality Day on Monday, August 26, the toy manufacturer added the Parks and Ride dolls to their “” Barbie collection, which already includes dolls modeled after Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Parks became a figurehead for the civil rights movement in the ’50s when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger thus launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott.Barbie “Each doll features authentic clothing and unique accessories, plus educational information about the honoree’s contributions to society, so girls can be inspired by their stories through play,” Mattel officials said in a statement (via
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