S2E9: Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker...Josi Bakes as we've taken to calling her, respectfully. Fizzing with energy, talent, and pure GUMPTION. The only African American woman to be inducted in the Pantheon of France. Her story takes us from the poverty and violence of segregated St. Louis, to the scandalously modern revues of interwar Europe. Beloved in Berlin, but finding herself most at home in Paris, she would tirelessly work for the French resistance during the Second World War, only to return to rejection and racial prejudice in the united states, until being one of only 2 women to speak at the 1963 March on Washington. All that whilst being what seems to be a genuine delight. Strap in as Pip bursts with info on Josephine Baker.

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Sources

Deautsche Welle Docu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHUh_yjLaA&t=2337s

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy, Damien Lewis

Femininity the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin 
Nancy Nenno 

Josephine Baker Was the Star France Wanted—and the Spy It Needed, Lauren Michele Jackson

Josephine Baker's Rainbow Tribe by Merlind Theile in Spiegel International

Redacted History Podcast: Josephine Baker: From Jim Crow, to Broadway to World War II

You're Dead to Me Podcast: Josephine Baker