![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This dance-the danse sauvage-is what established her as the biggest black female star in the world. And there, wearing little more than strings of pearls, wrist cuffs, and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, Josephine Baker descended from a palm tree onstage, and began to dance. Hordes of white Parisians flocked to the famed theater to see La Revue Nègre, a musical show that emerged from France due to the country’s fascination with jazz culture. It was the summer of 1926 at the Folies Bergère in Paris. Josephine Courtesy of La Centrale Cinematographique
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