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Creole Lady of New Orleans

February 15, 2023

Shared by Dannie Gore, Sr. A mixture of Negro, Indian and White, these gentlewomen were sometimes educated in France, and were wealthy, had many slaves, and spoke French. Some whites of supposedly inmixed strain pretended to scorn them but they and their men were a power in the city. The word “Creole” itself is […]

Josephine Baker Served as a World World II Spy

November 29, 2020

Josephine Baker became a spy for the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France and smuggled intelligence coded on her sheet music to the resistance. In 1941 Baker travelled to the French colonies in North Africa, the reason stated for the trip was her health. But Baker was actually there to establish a liaison […]