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On March 8 is celebrated in almost all the globe the International Women's
Day. The latest dawn of the XIX century came while the imminent industrial development and the emergence of new ideologies posed a "turn of the screw" in
the manner of living and thinking in the societies of that time. The outlines of an
absolute gender equality come stomping along with modernity and the next century wars. First celebrated in the United States in 1909, the International
Women's Day was officially proclaimed until 1917 as part of the Russian Revolution with the protest of millions of women for the dead of the First World War the
modern world. With over 90 years old, this important day, according to the UN,
"... has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries contributing for the rights of women and their participation in the
political and economic life.
Freda Josephine McDonald was
born in St. Louis, Missouri and
was right there behind. Family
stability was poor and the excessive fought racism in the U.S. at
the beginning of the century did
put the Atlantic between to emigrate to what later would become
her country. Josephine Baker arrived in Paris with a hand pointing back and the other to fame.
Baker put aside his sad early
years in the U.S., to become the
favorite americaine de tout Paris.
The year was 1925 and Josephine arrived in France with her
husband Willie Baker (who
would retain name). The exotic
American artist was presented in
La Revue Nègre, the first musical
comedy "colored" presented in
no less than at Music Hall des
Champs-Elysées. His sculptural
legs, exotic color and inexhaustible smile made her suddenly gain
popularity positioning herself as
unavoidable reference de la nuit
parisienne.
Were the 20's and the who's
who were the cultural world of the
XX century was walking along the
shores of the Seine. Joyce, Fitzgerald,
Heminhgway, Picasso, Dalí, Buñuel
and Man Ray were some habitués of
the mythical cafes of the rive gauche
and extraordinary gatherings offered
by Gertrude Stein often enlivened by
Cole Porter or the same Josephine
Baker. André Breton
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drives while the surrealism, Picasso for its part developing his
commendable Cubism and Baker
would establish residence in the
city that would become the biggest stage of the European avantgarde.
It was not just his talent and
unique beauty what positioned
her has the undisputed star of the
elegant Parisian cabaret nights.
The "Black Pearl" took the stage
of the famous Folies Bergère to
present his Danse Sauvage accompanied by