French Pantheon 
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SOURCE: NPR
11/30/2021
Josephine Baker First American, Black Woman, and Performer Inducted to French Pantheon
"in 1963, Baker addressed the crowd at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She wore her French Resistance uniform with the string of medals across her breast."
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/22/2021
Josephine Baker to Be Honored With a Panthéon Burial
"Along with other Black American artists — including the writers Richard Wright and James Baldwin — Ms. Baker said she found in France a freedom that she felt denied in the United States."
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