She sang and danced—provocatively. She wore a banana skirt. But she was also a French Resistance fighter, a spy, a civil rights activist, a mother of 12 adopted children, and an American. This was Josephine Baker and I honestly didn’t know much about her before I visited her home at Château des Milandes in the Dordogne valley. I quickly learned that she was much more than the caricature portrayed in the press. Hers is a story that is worth knowing especially since she was honored at the Paris Panthéon on November 30, 2021. She is the only American-born individual and the first Black woman to receive this recognition.
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