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From "The Rise and Fall of Confidential", "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine" by Henry E. Scott
November 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM
From "The Rise and Fall of Confidential", "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine" by Henry E. Scott
“self-serving, she was known as one of the only black performers who refused to perform before a segregated audience, which cost her a number of engagements. She was so esteemed by the NAACP that it had named May 20 “Josephine Baker Day.””
November 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
“self-serving, she was known as one of the only black performers who refused to perform before a segregated audience, which cost her a number of engagements. She was so esteemed by the NAACP that it had named May 20 “Josephine Baker Day.””
out of the Stork and into a meeting the next morning with the NAACP and the then-liberal New York Post. The story got lots of press. Despite Confidential magazine’s [a salacious magazine of the time, akin to the National Enquirer today] assertion that Baker’s fight against discrimination was…”
November 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
out of the Stork and into a meeting the next morning with the NAACP and the then-liberal New York Post. The story got lots of press. Despite Confidential magazine’s [a salacious magazine of the time, akin to the National Enquirer today] assertion that Baker’s fight against discrimination was…”
“In time, each of Baker’s companions was served. Conspicuous by its absence was the steak and crab salad ordered by Baker, the only black person at the table and indeed the only black person in the club. After an angry exchange of words with the club’s staff, Baker and her companions stormed…”
November 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
“In time, each of Baker’s companions was served. Conspicuous by its absence was the steak and crab salad ordered by Baker, the only black person at the table and indeed the only black person in the club. After an angry exchange of words with the club’s staff, Baker and her companions stormed…”
Now, weighing a move back to the United States, she was in New York for a two-week engagement at the Roxy. Baker and her husband, Jo Bouillon, and three friends were quickly seated at the club’s exclusive Club Room.”
November 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Now, weighing a move back to the United States, she was in New York for a two-week engagement at the Roxy. Baker and her husband, Jo Bouillon, and three friends were quickly seated at the club’s exclusive Club Room.”
Nearly three decades earlier, Baker’s appearance onstage in Paris garbed in only three bracelets and a skirt fashioned from sixteen bananas had won her an enthusiastic reception from the French. Her work for the French resistance and marriage to a Frenchman earned their enduring affection.
November 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Nearly three decades earlier, Baker’s appearance onstage in Paris garbed in only three bracelets and a skirt fashioned from sixteen bananas had won her an enthusiastic reception from the French. Her work for the French resistance and marriage to a Frenchman earned their enduring affection.