Josephine Baker

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Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was once nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the primary time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer turned into the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. Within the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the primary black star at the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time Within the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for see you later suffered for my part. She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of various ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism right through her life, Josephine Baker would sing of affection and liberty until the day she died.
 


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