She also entertained troops in Africa and the Middle East. During this time. When World War II ended, Baker earned the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour, France’s highest military honors.
She became one of the most popular music-hall entertainers in France, achieving star billing at the Folies-Bergère dancing seminude in a G-string ornamented with bananas. She quickly became the favorite of artists and intellectuals such as painter Pablo Picasso, poet E.E. Cummings, playwright Jean Cocteau, and writer Ernest Hemingway. Baker became one of the best-known entertainers in France and all of Europe, her exotic, sensual act reinforcing the creative forces coming out of the Harlem Renaissance in America.
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Black history month hasn't ever taught me a god damn thing. Same thing for Women's history month. It's like they ain't even trying. I've learned more history the hard way, by accident, then the public school system ever taught me.
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