{"id":3494,"date":"2021-12-22T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:22:39","slug":"josephine-baker-to-be-first-black-woman-to-enter-frances-pantheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2021\/12\/22\/josephine-baker-to-be-first-black-woman-to-enter-frances-pantheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9phine Baker to be first black woman to enter France&#8217;s Panth\u00e9on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/120210820_gettyimages-3229575-594x594-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/120210820_gettyimages-3229575-594x594-1.jpg 976w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/120210820_gettyimages-3229575-594x594-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/120210820_gettyimages-3229575-594x594-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>American-born French performer Jos\u00e9phine Baker will be entered into Paris&#8217; Panth\u00e9on mausoleum, making her the first black woman to receive the honour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government says Baker will be inducted into the monument in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Panth\u00e9on is a burial place for celebrated French icons such as scientist Marie Curie and writer Victor Hugo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker will be just the sixth woman to join some 80 national heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1906, Baker rose to international stardom in the 1930s after moving to France to pursue a career in showbusiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was also a resistance fighter for her adopted country France during World War Two, and had a role in the civil rights movement in the US.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-58303919\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-58303919\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American-born French performer Jos\u00e9phine Baker will be entered into Paris&#8217; Panth\u00e9on mausoleum, making her the first black woman to receive the honour. The government says Baker will be inducted into the monument in November. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnicity","category-gender","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}