A Legend, Josephine Baker, Receives Highest Paris Burial Honor

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ed an unofficial leader in the movement by Coretta Scott King following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, but she declined for the safety and welfare of her children.</p><p id="ca76">However, in 1963, she was prominent during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during his “I Have A Dream” speech, as a civil rights activist.</p><p id="2379">For her contribution to humanity during World War II, on August 23, 2021, it was announced that November 2021 would mark the time for her being interred in the Pantheon monument in Paris, the first black woman to receive the highest honors in France for being a World War II hero.</p><p id="b28b">Ms. Baker died in 1975 and was buried in Monaco dressed in a French military uniform with medals received for being a military woman during the French Resistance. She is the fifth woman out of 72 men to be honored with a Pantheon burial and the first entertainer honored.</p><p id="56a1">While she became a megastar in the 1930s, the states due to racism and segregation caused her to flee to France where upon her arrival in France, she instantly became famous for “banana skirt” dance routines and wowed audiences at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees and later at the Folies Bergere in Paris.</p><p id="6b87">Among her other missions with the French Resistance, she collected information from German officials met at parties, and secretly and discreetly carried those messages to England and other countries under the disguise of her star status that justified her travels.</p><p id="a5d1">In conclusion, for her heroism and artistry, France now bestows a well-deserved honor and recognition, the highest award given and the first to an African American female for using her talent and status to be a conduit for betterment in France and the United States. May she rest in peace knowing that her life affected and changed so many others and now she can truly rest in peace.</p><p id="e9e3">For additional reads:</p><div id="6183" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/celebrating

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How the first Black Woman is recognized for her artistry and activism

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Josephine Baker, an astounding actress, who performed on stages nationally and internationally. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri as Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, and transitioned on April 1975. She was American-born and became a French entertainer, French Resistance Agent, and civil rights activist. Not being rightfully recognized as a consummate artist, she migrated to Europe where she was revered and accepted readily by France, renounced her U.S. citizenship.

Ms. Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture in 1927, “Siren of the Tropics”, became renowned as a dancer and became a celebrated performer with other great headlines of the Folies Bergere n Paris. Also, her performance in the revue Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in the city as she wore only a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace, which became an iconic image and a symbol both of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. Being accepted on such a level, she renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937 and raised her children in France.

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In France, she was known for aiding the French Resistance during World War II and was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, and was named a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur.

Activism was in her blood as she refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States, her contribution to the Civil Rights movement and was deemed an unofficial leader in the movement by Coretta Scott King following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, but she declined for the safety and welfare of her children.

However, in 1963, she was prominent during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during his “I Have A Dream” speech, as a civil rights activist.

For her contribution to humanity during World War II, on August 23, 2021, it was announced that November 2021 would mark the time for her being interred in the Pantheon monument in Paris, the first black woman to receive the highest honors in France for being a World War II hero.

Ms. Baker died in 1975 and was buried in Monaco dressed in a French military uniform with medals received for being a military woman during the French Resistance. She is the fifth woman out of 72 men to be honored with a Pantheon burial and the first entertainer honored.

While she became a megastar in the 1930s, the states due to racism and segregation caused her to flee to France where upon her arrival in France, she instantly became famous for “banana skirt” dance routines and wowed audiences at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees and later at the Folies Bergere in Paris.

Among her other missions with the French Resistance, she collected information from German officials met at parties, and secretly and discreetly carried those messages to England and other countries under the disguise of her star status that justified her travels.

In conclusion, for her heroism and artistry, France now bestows a well-deserved honor and recognition, the highest award given and the first to an African American female for using her talent and status to be a conduit for betterment in France and the United States. May she rest in peace knowing that her life affected and changed so many others and now she can truly rest in peace.

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