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Michael Rogin: Josephine Baker, 22 February 2001
The Josephine Baker Story
by Ean Wood.
Sanctuary, 327 pp., £16.99, September 2000,1 86074 286 6 Show More
by Ean Wood.
Sanctuary, 327 pp., £16.99, September 2000,
Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s
by Petrine Archer-Straw.
Thames and Hudson, 200 pp., £14.95, September 2000,0 500 28135 1 Show More
by Petrine Archer-Straw.
Thames and Hudson, 200 pp., £14.95, September 2000,
“... 1963 she performed at Carnegie Hall and spoke from the platform during the March on Washington. (Ean Wood wonders if Langston Hughes, who knew Baker in Paris in the 1920s, had her in mind when he included the verse ‘Look at that gal shake that thing./We can’t all be Martin Luther King’ in the second edition of his anthology, The Poetry of the ... ”