
Virtual Memorial
Josephine Baker
A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Josephine Baker, remembered for Performance, French Resistance, Civil rights.

Why Josephine Baker Is Remembered
Josephine Baker is remembered for performance, french resistance, civil rights. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.
The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.
A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm
This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Josephine Baker.
The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.
Place Context
Paris, France is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Josephine Baker's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.
Historical Context
Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, and a spy for the French Resistance. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.
Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.
Photos

Josephine Baker in La Revue des Revues (1927)
Lucien Waléry, http://www.art-deco-prints-and-posters.com/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Source
Josephine Baker
Walery , Polish-British, 1863-1929, http://www.artnet.com/ (2012 upload from book ISBN 3822855693 ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Source
Title: Portrait of Josephine Baker Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. Notes: Title derived from information on verso of photographic print.; Van Vechten n
Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2004662544 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/van/5a51000/5a51600/5a51675r.jpg Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/van.5a51675, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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