Josephine Baker St. Louis

In a speech before the audience at Kiel Auditorium, Baker said:

“I wanted to find freedom of soul and spirit. I wanted to do things to help freedom come to my people. I was ready to fight, if necessary to obtain it. I wanted to feel that I was a human being and that we were all human beings.”  Speech available from the University of Missouri St. Louis Black History Project Collection.

Josephine Baker, MS. 0725, Box 1, Special Collections, The Johns Hopkins University