Josephine Baker made her debut as “Black Venus” in Berlin in 1926, performing the Charleston at the Nelson Theater on Kurfürstendamm. “Berlin feels great!,” she later enthused. “A pure triumph. They ...

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Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up the stage. She danced her way out of abject poverty in St. Louis into the grand orchestra halls and cabarets of ...

ST. LOUIS — "We're proud to announce that the world's largest privately held collection of Josephine Baker artifacts is coming into the collection at the Missouri Historical Society," Peter Kastor, ...

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