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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.
Dec 2, 2008 · Two years later, a Congo Pygmy named Ota Benga was housed temporarily at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City—and then exhibited, briefly and controversially, at the Bronx...
Aug 26, 2020 · Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now DR Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited.
Jul 31, 2020 · Ota Benga, a young Pygmy, spent part of September 1906 on display at what is now the Bronx Zoo. It wasn't the first time he had been exhibited as an oddity.
Mar 22, 2016 · The shocking story of Ota Benga, the Congolese pygmy kidnapped and held captive as a human anthropology exhibit in the Bronx Zoo. Shocking photos and facts behind one of history's most appalling tales of racism.
Oct 9, 2006 · 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. Producer Joe Richman has this profile.
Aug 26, 2020 · As early as 1906 a letter in the zoo archives reveals that officials, in the wake of growing criticism, discussed concocting a story that Ota Benga had actually been a zoo employee.
