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#JosephineBaker was an entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her initial break into show business came when she was featured in “Shuffle Along,” Broadway's first Black musical, in 1921. She played the comic "end girl" in the chorus and wound up stealing the show. Four years later, she was offered the opportunity to go to Paris and perform in La Revue Nègre. Christian Dior designed her clothing and her admirers included Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso. During World War II, she served as an intelligence liaison and an ambulance driver for the French Resistance and was awarded the Medal of the Resistance and the Legion of Honor. Soon after the war, Baker toured the United States again, and this time she won respect and praise from African-Americans for her support of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1951, she refused to play to segregated audiences and, as a result, the NAACP named her its Most Outstanding Woman of the Year. She gave a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall for the NAACP, the SNCC, and CORE in 1963. Baker never had biological children, but she adopted ten sons and two daughters of various races and nationalities. She passed away on April 12, 1975 at the age of 68. On the day of her funeral, more than 20,000 people lined the streets of Paris to witness the procession, and the French government honored her with a 21-gun salute, making Baker the first American woman in history to be buried in France with military honors. (Quotes taken from www.aaregistry.org www.wikipedia.org and www.biography.com)??? "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." #wcw

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