Behind the dream was a president torn between progress and politics. This video reveals what history left out.

A century before Beyoncé, Josephine Baker became America’s first global pop star. She broke barriers, built a brand, and ...

During World War II, she spied for the French resistance against the Nazis. She was also a fierce fighter for civil rights in America and memorably addressed the crowd at the 1963 March on Washington.

Josephine Baker, in her own words, amplifies her renown as provocateur In Baker’s newly translated 1949 memoir, “Fearless and Free,” the boundary-breaking performer does not hold back on her ...

She was also a spy for the French resistance and the only woman to speak at the 1963 “March on Washington” where Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.

In 1961, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre, a French military honor for feats of bravery; two years later she traveled back to the United States to attend the March on Washington, where she was ...

In 1963, Baker was invited by Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at the March on Washington. “I am not a young woman now, friends,” she told the crowd. “There is not too much fire burning ...

Notably, the speeches at the March on Washington included only one woman, Josephine Baker, the great singer who came over from her exile in France, where she'd been a member of the resistance.

WASHINGTON − As the preliminary program for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom came together, Anna Arnold Hedgeman noticed a glaring omission in the star-studded lineup of ...

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 ...

She worked as a secret agent for the French Resistance during WWII, then supported Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, speaking at his side during his 1963 March on Washington.