Baker, josephine
baker, josephine
a twentieth-century african-american actress, dancer, singer, and civil rights activist. she gained her international reputation first in europe. after world war ii she was decorated by the french government for her work in the resistance, and at her death she was given a state funeral as a war hero.
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