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Nov 30, 2021 · Published: November 30, 2021 7:02am EST. Joséphine Baker, Jo Bouillon and their children, 1959. Herbert Behrens/Anefo. Among all the causes championed by Josephine Baker, her child...
Throughout her career, she adopted 13 children from various countries. She called her family “the rainbow tribe” and took her children on the road in an effort to show that racial and cultural harmony could exist. Baker remained on stage late into her life and in 1975 she performed for the last time.
Nov 17, 2022 · Jean-Claude Bouillon-Baker, one of the 12 adopted children of the iconic dancer and activist, remembers his mother following the publication of a graphic novel about her life Joséphine...
Apr 18, 2014 · Beginning in 1953, almost 30 years after her first successful performances on the Paris stage, the singer and dancer Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from different countries, ranging from...
In 1993, Josephine Baker's foster son Jean-Claude Baker published a biography titled Josephine: The Hungry Heart, which was the culmination of decades of exhaustive research into Baker's life and career. In the book, he discusses at length the circumstances surrounding Baker's birth:
Jan 24, 2018 · Josephine Baker adopted 12 children, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and became the first American woman buried in France with a 21-gun salute | The Vintage News. Jan 24, 2018 Tijana Radeska. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Dec 5, 2021 · Baker and her husband, the bandleader Jo Bouillon, adopted twelve children from multiple countries. Having survived poverty and segregation in America, Baker wanted to assemble a “rainbow...
