“One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left.”

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....