Josephine Baker was born in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. She faced discrimination and poverty as a black woman in America. She moved to Paris in the 1920s to perform in an all-black musical revue and found overnight fame and success as a dancer, singer, and performer. Baker became an international celebrity and symbol of the jazz age and Harlem Renaissance. Though never accepted in the US due to her race, she fought racial injustice and refused to perform for segregated audiences. Baker was also a spy for France in WWII and spoke at the 1963 March on Washington alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She lived an extravagant but dramatic life and was known for her adopted multi-racial family,