A star of stage, screen and song, a resistance fighter, and a civil rights activist... half a century after her death, the American-born icon of the Jazz Age in Paris becomes the first Black woman to enter the city’s famed Panthéon, France’s mausoleum for “great men” – and, belatedly, great women too.

With images, texts and a video, the webdocumentary “The extraordinary life of Josephine Baker” looks back on her life, from her humble origins in a segregated America to her Parisian stardom in the Années Folles, her wartime service for France, and her battle against racial injustice.

Summary:

• “The little girl from Saint Louis”

• “The plucky, mischievous dancer”

• “The toast of Paris”

• “The resistance fighter”

• “The Civil Rights activist”

• “Mother to the rainbow tribe”