Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The narrative thrust is a simple set up of Josephine Baker after a show during her ...
Josephine Baker was the first Black female superstar. In the 1920s, she took Paris by storm with her exuberant dance performances; she was also a Resistance fighter in World War II and a civil rights ...
The famed entertainer-activist and French Resistance hero will be the first Black woman to receive the honor, 46 years after her death in 1975. One of the most pioneering Black entertainers in history ...
US-born dancer Josephine Baker, nicknamed Black Venus, performs 26 March 1975 at a Paris’stage Bobino, two weeks before her death 10 April 1975. Baker, born 03 June 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, first ...