Out dancer Josephine Baker becomes first Black woman interred at the Pantheon in Paris

Out American-born dancer Josephine Baker will be the first Black woman – and the sixth woman ever – to be interred at the Pantheon in Paris, one of the highest postmortem honors in France.

Baker, who was born in poverty in Missouri, dazzled France as a dancer when she first arrived in Europe in the 1920s, worked for the resistance as a spy during the Second World War, and built her “Rainbow Tribe” – her, her fourth husband Jo Bouillon, and their 12 adopted children of different ethnicities – in a chateau after the war while campaigning for civil rights. FOR MORE

From France24:https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20211130-making-history-again-josephine-baker-enters-panth%C3%A9on-of-french-heroes
“Josephine Baker – Greatest Hits”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZfPtV8txlg&list=RDUZfPtV8txlg&start_radio=1&t=11s

“The Josephine Baker Story” – 1991 TV movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhJ-JDMSQc

Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org