In 1925, the 19-year-old Josephine Baker moved to France to appear in "La Revue Negre" at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. For a hugely talented young American who was born poor and stymied by racism and segregation, the Parisian life, with its bacchanalian freedoms and the French love for, and...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 01:34PM on May 19, 2017