Posted on 26 January 2012. Tags: 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, African American History, African history, American Civil Rights, Black History, Black artists in Paris, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Christian Dior, Civil Rights, Croix de guerre, Ernest Hemingway, European, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Folies Bergère, France, Freda Josephine McDonald, French Resistence, Josephine Baker, Joséphine à Bobino, Martin Luther King, Missouri, Native american, Paris, Picasso, Princess Tam-Tam, Rosette de la Résistance, St. Louis, World War II, Zou-Zou, dancer

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the dancer Josephine Baker in the annals of European Black History in this century. She quite literally changed everything for black artists in Paris, and as a consequence, the world over. Paris was the centre of the artistic and music world at the time Baker exploded onto the ...
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