“I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.”

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....