{"id":61317,"date":"2021-08-23T02:58:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61317"},"modified":"2021-08-23T02:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:58:23","slug":"josephine-baker-is-1st-black-woman-given-paris-burial-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61317","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Baker is 1st Black woman given Paris burial honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josephine Baker is 1st Black woman given Paris burial honor<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a>
2021-08-21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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FILE – In this file photo dated March 6, 1961, singer Josephine Baker<\/a> poses in her dressing room at the Strand Theater in New York City, USA<\/a>. The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon<\/a> monument in Paris<\/a>, Le Parisien<\/em><\/a> newspaper reported Sunday Aug. 22, 2021, that French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> has decided to bestow the honor. Josephine Baker is a World War II<\/a> hero in France<\/a> and will be the first Black woman to get the country\u2019s highest honor. (AP Photo)”<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

PARIS<\/a> (AP) \u2014 The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker<\/a> will be reinterred at the Pantheon<\/a> monument in Paris<\/a>, making the entertainer who is a World War II<\/a> hero in France<\/a> the first Black woman to get the country\u2019s highest honor.<\/p>\n

Le Parisien<\/em><\/a> newspaper reported Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> decided to organize a ceremony on Nov. 30 at the Paris monument, which houses the remains of scientist Marie Curie<\/a>, French philosopher Voltaire<\/a>, writer Victor Hugo<\/a> and other French luminaries.<\/p>\n

The presidential palace confirmed the newspaper\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

After her death in 1975, Baker was buried in Monaco<\/a>, dressed in a French military uniform with the medals she received for her role as part of the French Resistance<\/a> during the war.<\/p>\n

Baker will be the fifth woman to be honored with a Pantheon burial and will also be the first entertainer honored…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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