A Journey through history - Boston.com History’s “ugly truths” are here inside an unlocked cabinet just insidethe entrance to the new Black Doll Museum in Mansfield. Visitors can reach into the cabinet and touch figures of mammies; dolls made by slaves from bells, thimbles, and animal wishbones; or a dark -faced pickaninny doll. Then there are the golliwogs -- minstrel-type rag dolls popularized in the 19th century ...
June 25, 2013 - Boston Globe