Josephine Baker
Entertainer
Notable Achievement
Jazz Age performer and civil rights activist
Biography
Freda Josephine Baker, naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.
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Birthday Date
Josephine Baker was born on June 3