Josephine Baker was an American actress, dancer and singer who became very popular when she moved to France and entertained with a blend of 1920s American dance, comedy and an exotic African persona. One French reviewer described her as a black Venus, who turned our concept of rhythm and movement on its head. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1906/06/03 | Freda Josephine McDonald is born in St Louis, Missouri | Born | Josephine Baker's Birthday | ||||
| 1921/05/23 | The premiere of 'Shuffle Along' at the Cort 63rd Street Theatre, 22 W 63rd St, NYC (razed) begins a runs of 504 performances. | Dancer | Shuffle Along | ||||
| 1924/06/00 | Ethel Waters headlines at the Plantation Club while Florence Mills goes on tour. Josephine Baker steps out of the chorus line to clown joy and play the trombone | Performer | Sam Salvin's Plantation Club site | New York City | |||
| 1925/10/02 | La Revue Negre, 25 Black American performers doing a Harlem style tap show with the aesthetics of French colonialist fantasy, opens at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees | Performer | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | |||
| 1925/11/19 | La Revue Negre ends its run, but long remember for Joe Alex and Ms Baker dancing nearly naked in just feathers | Performer | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | |||
| 1925/11/21 | Josephine Baker's Colored Revue has arrived. The music is tuneless and the end of the show is dull, but never Miss Baker's part. It was even less dull the first night when she did what used to be, what indeed still should be called a stomach dance. | Performer | Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris | Paris | |||
| 1926/00/00 | Josephine Baker breaks her contract with La Revue Negre in Berlin to headline in La Folie du Jour at the Folies-Bergere. Notable for comically dancing, nearly naked, except for a skirt of rubber bananas. | Performer | Folies Bergere | Paris | |||
| 1926/05/28 | Josephine Baker drifts into the Ambassadeur wearing a white ermine coat, black evening gown with a hood around her face that makes her look almost white. She gets the best table, right down front, lighted by hundreds of little bulbs. | Guest | Theatre of the Concorde | Paris | |||
| 1963/08/28 | Josephine Baker, wearing her uniform of the French Resistance, speaks at the March on Washington | Speaker | Lincoln Memorial | Washington, DC | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom |
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