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Joephine Baker Immortalized by U.S. Postal Service
07-16-2008

Josephine Baker will be honored tomorrow as the Newark Museum unveils five U.S. Postal Service approved black-cinema-themed stamps

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BIOGRAPHY

Josephine Baker sashayed onto a Paris stage during the 1920s with a comic, yet sensual appeal that took Europe by storm. Famous for barely-there dresses and no-holds-barred dance routines, her exotic beauty generated nicknames Black Venus, Black Pearl and Creole Goddess. More...


ACHIEVEMENTS

Josephine took on racism in America during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Though she felt more at home in Paris, she refused to sit idly by while others like her were being unfairly treated in her birth country. More...


QUOTES

"The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts."

"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely."

"It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?" More quotes...