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Ota Benga (c. 1883 – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo.
Aug 26, 2020 · 26 August 2020. Library of Congress. Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. Journalist Pamela Newkirk, who has ...
Sep 22, 2018 · September 22, 2018 contributed by: Mikelle Howard. Ota Benga, Bronx Zoo, ca. 1915. Courtesy U.S. Library of Congress (2014702691) Ota Benga was a teenage boy brought from his homeland in central Africa and displayed like an animal at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, New York.
Mar 14, 2023 · Ota Benga (ca. 1883–1916) SUMMARY. Ota Benga was a Mbuti man who was brought to the United States from Central Africa and displayed at the Saint Louis World’s Fair, the Museum of Natural History, and the Bronx Zoo Monkey House before settling in Lynchburg, where he died by suicide.
Oct 9, 2006 · Looking Back at the Strange Case of Ota Benga. A century ago, a Belgian Congo pygmy named Ota Benga was displayed in the Bronx Zoo's monkey cage, an exhibition that outraged black Americans...
Dec 2, 2008 · Ota Benga, a pygmy, was born somewhere in a forest in Congo around 1883. He married young and started a family. One day he returned from elephant hunting to find his village slaughtered, and he...
Aug 7, 2015 · Ota Benga, Captive: The Man the Bronx Zoo Kept in a Cage. News Story. Ota Benga, Captive: The Man the Bronx Zoo Kept in a Cage. NYU journalism professor Pamela Newkirk unearths a dark chapter in the history of one of New York City's most venerable institutions. Aug 7, 2015. Eileen Reynolds. Aug 7, 2015. Arts and Culture. New York City.
