The Blue Dashiki: Jeffery and His City Neighbors

Year Published: 1969

Creator: ?Encyclopedia Britannica ebec

Complete Record: Follows the adventures of a young boy as he seeks to earn money in order to buy a dashiki that he has seen in a local African import shop. Woman looking out city apartment window. Man opening store. Morning activity, Wonderbread delivery. Kid looks out of window. Mother waves up to him from street. Kid eats breakfast. Cereal, rice krispies. Kid walks down street, bouncing a ball, beckons to friend. Kid puts on jacket, play with cartoon playing cards. Street chalk. They share some bread. Picture of Martin Luther King Jr. African goods store front. African knick knacks. Older people in store look happy as kids try on hats. Man in blue dashiki. Rack of dashikis. Kids play wall ball. Mother retrieves kid. Woman in white cloth outfit. Old woman pats kid on head. Kid returns to African store. Kid shops for dashikis. Kid helps old woman with groceries. Kid works at record store. Kid pays parking meter several times. Washes windows and cars. Sweeps at fish market. Descales fish. Walks a DOG. Picks up dry cleaning. Woman helps kid put on dashiki with safety pins. Sewing the dashiki. Kid showing of his new dashiki around the block.