Josephine Baker
Personal
Other names: Freda Josephine McDonald
Job / Known for: Music-hall entertainer and French Resistance agent
Left traces: Rainbow Tribe and civil rights legacy
Born
Date: 1906-06-03
Location: FR Born in St. Louis, Missouri, US
Died
Date: 1975-04-12 (aged 69)
Resting place: FR
Death Cause: Cerebral hemorrhage
Family
Spouse: Willie Wells (1919-1919), William Baker (1921-1925), Jean Lion (1937-1940), Jo Bouillon (1947-1961)
Children: 12 adopted children: Akio, Janot, Luis, Jari, Jean-Claude, Moïse, Brahim
Parent(s): Carrie McDonald and Eddie Carson (biological parents), Richard and Elvira Martin (adoptive parents)
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I have two loves: my country and Paris.
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Joséphine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress who symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s. She was one of the most popular music-hall entertainers in France and was also known for her work with the French Resistance during World War II. She renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937. She raised her children in France. She aided the French Resistance during World War II. After the war, she was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and is noted for her contributions to the civil rights movement. In 1968, she was offered unofficial leadership in the movement in the United States by Coretta Scott King, following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. After thinking it over, Baker declined the offer out of concern for the welfare of her children. On November 30, 2021, she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honors in France. As her resting place remains in Monaco Cemetery, a cenotaph was installed in vault 13 of the crypt in the Panthéon.
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