The amazing story of the first Black superstar. Baker, born into poverty in Missouri in 1906, moved to France where she became a dancer hailed as the Queen of Paris, joined the French Resistance, and became a civil rights activist. This is the journey of her awakening — from the "banana dancer" to a humanist fighter against racial injustice.
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Distributed nationally by American Public Television