They weren't just dark-skinned. They were African Pygmies. https://archive.org/details/charliechocolate0000unse_u3w0/page/72/mode/2up?q=oompa https://archive.or

They weren't just dark-skinned. They were African Pygmies. https://archive.org/details/charliechocolate0000unse_u3w0/page/72/mode/2up?q=oompa https://archive.org/details/charliechocolate0000unse_u3w0/pa... > “Right!” cried Mr. Wonka. “Pygmies they are! Imported direct from Africa! They belong to a tribe of tiny miniature pygmies known as the Oompa-Loompas. I discovered them myself. I brought them over from Africa myself—the whole tribe of them, three thousand in all. I found them in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before. (BTW, an archive.org search doesn't find the phrase 'people out of chocolate'.) The movie - and after threats by the NAACP and others to boycott the movie - portrayed them as orange. Dahl's revision depicts them as white. https://archive.org/details/charliechocolate0000dahl_x9u4/page/80/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/charliechocolate0000dahl_x9u4/pa... > The Oompa-Loompa bowed and smiled, showing beautiful white teeth. His skin was rosy-white, his long hair was golden-brown, and the top of his head came just above the height of Mr. Wonka’s knee.