“Josephine Baker was not just a woman who became a Black ... and referred to their family as “The Rainbow Tribe.” She also performed right up until her death in 1975 at age 68.

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) found fame in France in the 1920s as the American expat who danced in “a mere belt of bananas.” ...

Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in St ... a child worked as a live in domestic in order to support her family. At age 11 Baker witnessed the violent East St. Louis Massacre ...

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story of a musical icon, stage sensation and heroine of the French Resistance who took 20th Century Europe by storm – think Janelle Monae ...