April 24, 2024
Tag: African American Postcards
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Josephine Baker More Than A Film Star
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Josephine Baker was a beauty, an actress, a singer, a spy, a savior of abused animals and orphaned children, a civil rights activist, and a celebrity on two continents. In all these roles she made headlines. Tony Crumbley tells her complex and heroic story.
Past Article
October 6, 2021 7 Comments
A postcard purchased in error becomes the centrepiece of a tale of life in London Town during the Great War. A message written only days after the night of the Theatreland Raid tells how two British ingénue deal with the reality of war.