Ota Benga, a Central African man, was put on display in the monkey house in 1906 before Black ministers "brought the disgraceful incident to an end," the zoo operator said.
The operator of the venerable Bronx Zoo, one of the world's most famous wildlife parks, has apologized for two"unconscionable" racist episodes in its past, including placing an African man on display in a monkey house in 1906.
"His name was Ota Benga," the statement said. Bronx Zoo officials"put Ota Benga on display in the zoo’s Monkey House for several days during the week of September 8, 1906 before outrage from local Black ministers quickly brought the disgraceful incident to an end." The organization, founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, also denounced the"eugenics-based, pseudoscientific racism, writings, and philosophies" advanced by two of its founders, Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr.The book was submitted as a defense exhibit for Nazi doctor Karl Brandt, a director of the Third Reich's"euthanasia" program, and other defendants in the Nuremberg trials.
The role once-respected scholars played in propping up debunked scientific theories to justify white supremacy has been overlooked for far too long, according to the author.
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