World renowned performer, World War II spy, and activist are few of the titles used to describe Josephine Baker.
Josephine Baker went from homelessness to international fame as a scantily clad performer in Paris to a civil rights pioneer. Joanne Griffith reports.
On August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. Josephine Baker and Daisy Bates delivered speeches. They were the only women who spoke that day.
Edward Said’s seminal 1978 book, Orientalism, explores how often racist or romanticised stereotypes create a worldview that justifies Western colonialism and imperialism.
Out of everything that Josephine Baker accomplished in her life, her child advocacy work is perhaps the most overlooked.
Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial … Read More(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”
Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was an American dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights activist who found fame as an expatriate in Europe.
Josephine Baker is often remembered simply as the woman who danced wearing nothing but a skirt of bananas in Paris during the 1920's. But her life was far from simple.
