“I ran away from home... I ran away from the United States of America, because of this terror of discrimination, this horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.”

Josephine Baker

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About Josephine Baker

Entertainer French

Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics....

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