The Josephine Baker Story
Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine Carson in St. Louis, Missouri, on June
3, 1906 to washerwoman, Carrie McDonald, and vaudeville drummer, Eddie Carson.
Josephine's father abandoned them shortly after her birth and her mother married a kind
but perpetually unemployed man named Arthur Martin. Their family came to include a
son and two more daughters. Josephine grew up cleaning houses and babysitting for
wealthy white families until she got a job waitressing at The Old Chauffeur's Club when
she was 13-years-old. While working there she met a man named Willie Wells whom
she had a short marriage with. Josephine never depended on a man for financial support
and she never hesitated to leave when a relationship hit its breaking point. Which is why
she was married and divorced three more times to an American named Willie Baker in
1921 (whose last name she chose to keep), a Frenchman ,Jean Lion, in 1937 (from whom
she attained French citizenship) and a French......
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