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Baker, Josephine

  1. A twentieth-century African-American actress, dancer, singer, and civil rights activist. She gained her international reputation first in Europe . After World War II she was decorated by the French government for her work in the Resistance , and at her death she was given a state funeral as a war hero.


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Manish Arora's spring/ summer 2014 collection, which showed in Paris on Thursday, was inspired by "Josephine Baker goes raving."

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