"I cannot see that I did anything extraordinary to merit this honor. Everything was just as it had to be.""
— Josephine Baker

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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On receiving the Resistence Medal for her work on behalf of France during World War II, 1949 (Josephine Baker’s Secret War by Hanna Diamond)