MICHELLE OBAMA STILL THE FIRST BLACK FIRST LADY? HISTORICAL FIGURES YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE BLACK
October 22, 2014 ‐ By Meg Butler
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Was Michelle Obama the first black First Lady? Do you know which one of your bills features a black man? You might be surprised at the historical figures you didn’t know were black.
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BETTY BOOP
They might have drawn Betty Boop white, but her history is black. The character was actually stolen from Cotton Club singer
Esther Jones — known by her stage name “Baby Esther” and the baby talk she used when she sang songs like “I Wanna Be Loved By You (Boop- Boop-BeDoo). Her act later “inspired” cartoonist Max Fleischer to create the character Betty Boop and Esther tried to win the rights back to her character until the day she died.
Esther Jones — known by her stage name “Baby Esther” and the baby talk she used when she sang songs like “I Wanna Be Loved By You (Boop- Boop-BeDoo). Her act later “inspired” cartoonist Max Fleischer to create the character Betty Boop and Esther tried to win the rights back to her character until the day she died.
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