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Informative Speech On Josephine Baker

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Do you guys know that girl that made the banana skirt. Her name is Josephine Baker ; but she was born as Freda Josephine Mcdonald on June 3 1906, in St. Louis Missouri. She was known as a triple threat to the entire world. Josephine Baker Baker was a singer, dancer,and a actor. On 1963 She marched on washington and many other speakers. She had many accomplishments in her life to get a legacy And that made her a great performer;Finally I’m about to take you through a road trip of her life. Civil Rights Movement In the 1950s Josephine Baker went back to the United States to help and support the civil rights movement. She love to support her black people and love to fight for her rights. She did this because she said …show more content…

Josephine baker was an amazing dancer because of her dancing and that made her career take off tremendously. She moved to new york city and began to perform in the chocolate dandies. She felt like that was one of the biggest most important parts of her life. She was super excited to take on this new adventure. She are one of the most amazing people in the world ; I ever heard of .The chocolate dandies wrote her a special part in the 1924 production. In this time period josephine became a steady friend of eubie blake . She had two amazing friends; that always stood by her side for everything. She performed at the plantation club and the french producers came to new york looking for a girl to be in a musical cast. In 1934, she became the first black woman to star in a major picture in Zouzou. She was very excited that these New York producers came to her and ask her to be in their show. And they offered her a part in their production la revue negre As she started to patrice for la revue negre she danced a frantic version of the charleston while accompanied by a jazz band that featured sidney bechet. This was one of her most biggest shows of her life. And she needed everybody who loved her to be there. All of her friends support her in her actions and decisions. She is an amazing dancer and I loved that i picked this …show more content…

She had 12 children in total. When she performed at the bobino theater in paris and was celebrating their 50th anniversary. She was an inspiration to the whole world. She is a great person, and she was very important. She was an very cool and chill person. If she was still living of course I will love to see her because I will have a lot of questions to ask her . I will probably be star struck because she was a very good, talented, and fun person. I wish she was still leaving so I can speak and see her. I glad that we both love to dance and act. Josephine baker was a very talented person. One thing I will like to say if Josephine Baker was not a quitter. She can try your hardest to stop her. Throwing challenges after challenges at her , but she will not stop. And that’s what Amaz me about her. My pioneer is better than everyone else because she a triple threat, she adopted 12 children during her career. She is just very important person to me now that; I have heard about

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