Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in St ... only to be replaced by black workers. After a three-day crisis of in which white workers attacked black residents, at least ...

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story of a musical icon, stage sensation and heroine of the French Resistance who took 20th Century Europe by storm – think Janelle Monae ...