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I was called the worst kind of wildlife, “monkey,” “jungle bunny,” you name it.

The family avoided public places such as restaurants, and Blackman remembers being called a "jungle bunny" and told to go back to where she came from.

Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction.

But the taunting cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line.