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Josephine Baker

You're Dead to Me

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Is She a Spy?

Josephine baker is one of the most famous people in the world, nd yet she's a spy. She writes messages in invisible ink on her sheet music and goes through check points with it attached to her underwear or under her dress. Once france is liberated, she goes back to america but can't even get into stork club because they don't allow black patrons. A very classy woman who never ceases to notice that while other patriots are still being served by her as if there were no race at all.

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