Josephine Baker, at the age of 57, flew from France to perform at the March on Washington in front of 250,000 people. Entertainer Lena Horne, 46, also used art as activism by singing “Freedom ...

Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up ... attend the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. The woman who scandalized the world ...

Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in ... return as the only woman to give a speech at the historic March on Washington. Wearing her French military uniform, Baker spoke ...