GALLERY | Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France's Pantheon
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Large crowds paying their respects at the funeral of dancer Josephine Baker, Madeleine Church, Paris, April 15th 1975. "Pantheonisation is built over a long period of time," an aide to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP on Sunday, confirming a report in the Le Parisien newspaper. "She was an artist, the first Black international star, a muse of the cubists, a resistance fighter during WWII in the French army, active alongside Martin Luther King in the civil rights fight," the petition says.
She quickly caught the eye of a producer, who sent her to Paris where at the age of 19 she became the star of the hugely popular"La Revue Negre", which helped popularise jazz and African-American culture in France.Entertainer Josephine Bakers sings during a performance at the Strand Theater on Broadway.
She later went on a mission to Morocco and toured the resistance movement, being appointed a lieutenant in the French air force's female auxillary corps.
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