What's with the sudden trend of saying Betty boop was based on a black woman? She was based on the singer Helen Kane. It takes two seconds to look it up and
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BSA @ UVA on X: "Esther Jones "Baby Esther" was an African American jazz singer that inspired the creation of Betty Boop https://t.co/ka6l592Yxv" / X
IRock JAZZ - BETTY BOOP - Origin Ms. ESTHER JONES, known by her stage name, "Baby Esther," was an " African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s. She performed regularly at
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A short item promoting PBS' Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon charact
Ankh Ma'at Ra - Esther Jones was the real Betty Boop! The cartoon character Betty Boop was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem. Introduced by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930,
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