BETTY BOOP
They might have drawn Betty Boop white, but her history may have been 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 cartoon character Betty Boop and Esther tried to win the rights back to her character until the day she died.
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