Greetings YP’s!
Jersey is getting hit with another snow storm… Geez can we get enough? (Lol) Time for your Black History Moment for today! I present Josephine Baker.. This spectacular and tumultuous life began June 3, 1906, when Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis to Carrie McDonald. The identity of her father has been debated ever since. Part of the genius of Baker was her ability to adapt to her circumstances, a trait she demonstrated at an early age. Living on the streets of St. Louis, a school dropout at the age of nine, she quite literally used her environment to her advantage, dancing on street corners for small change. This attracted the attention of some local vaudeville show producers, a connection that eventually led to her leaving her first of four husbands — a Pullman porter named William Howard Baker — and moving to New York and Broadway.
By then, Baker had grown into a striking young woman, and she quickly became part of the Broadway scene. In [click to continue…]
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