Josephine Baker
Entertainer
Notable Achievement
Jazz Age performer and civil rights activist
Biography
Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, actress, and spy for the French Resistance. 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