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Ethel Waters #1132

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American blues vocalist and actress.     She was the second African American to ever be nominated for an Academy Award.

Josephine Baker #1048

Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France.

Josephine Baker #1121

Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France.

Josephine Baker #1165

Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism  in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her “Rainbow Tribe.”[1] She also refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and worked with the NAACP.[2] For some time she  lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in the Dordogne in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.)

Josephine Baker #1180

Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France.

Josephine Baker #1194

Josephine Baker #1201

Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France.

Josephine Baker #1208

Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France.

Josephine Baker - Au Bal Negre #1020

Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France.