Josephine was a spy in world war II which was very helpful to france. Josephine was a dancer, singer and a spy. In the 1950s and 60s she was fighting segregation and racism in the united states but still focused on her career. After her career with dancing was going well she adopted 12 children called the rainbow tribe. Today i am going to take you through a journey of josephine’s life and accomplishment.
Josephine helped france to get whatever they needed against others. She used her
Famousness to get the correct information that they needed. She used a sheet music that contained smuggled orders and maps written in invisible ink. She was then
Awarded for her service and support from …show more content…
Josephine was born as Freda Josephine McDonald. Her mother, Carrie McDonald
Was a washer woman who gave up her dream of being a dancer. Her father Eddie
Carson was a vaudeville drummer who abandoned her shortly after her birth. To help support her family at age eight josephine cleaned houses and babysat for wealthy white
Families. She was forced to sleep in the coal cellar with a pet dog and was scalded on the hands when she used too much soap in the laundry. At the age 13 josephine
Ran away and was living as a street in the slums of St. Louis, sleeping in cardboard shelters, scavenging for food in garbage can, making a living with street corner dancing. Josephine ran because she witnessed the cruel East St. Louis race riot of 1917. She left the St. Louis area three years later. After all this josephine then got married at the age of 15 to Willie Baker. She then divorced him in 1925 when her vaudeville troupe was
Booked into a New York City venue.
After Josephine’s career was going great she decided and was kind enough to
Adopt 12 children called the “rainbow tribe”. Baker wanted to prove that “children
Of different ethnicities and religions could still be brothers and