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France’s good and great are interred in this crypt.
Joséphine Baker, Jo Bouillon and their children, 1959.
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Out of everything that Josephine Baker accomplished in her life, her child advocacy work is perhaps the most overlooked.
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Baker will be the sixth woman, first entertainer and first Black woman to enter after a successful petition from her family and fans.