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Joséphine Baker will make her entry into the Pantheon on Tuesday, November 30. TO this occasion, the JT de 20 Heures has decided to revisit its historic speech during the march for civil rights in Washington.
On August 8, 1963 in Washington, she was about to take the rostrum in front of a huge and hopeful crowd. The day of the great historic march for civil rights. Josephine Baker is one of the few women to speak at this time. Back in the United States, the latter, who has suffered the full brunt of segregation, comes to talk about freedom, which she says she discovered in France where she was welcomed. A freedom that she ardently wishes for all those present during this speech.
“It’s the happiest day of my life”, a sentence that launches his very famous plea. She makes France, the central element of her speech, by reminding “that she was never afraid”, when it was present in the country. She compared life in France to that in the United States, recalling all the misdeeds of racial segregation. A speech that remains for many as one of the most important in the history of African Americans.