Photo Gallery The Global Mother
Long before Angelina Jolie and Madonna made headlines with their adoptive families, 1920s star Josephine Baker tried to combat racism by adopting 12 children of different ethnicities from around the world.
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In this 1959 photo, Josephine Baker holds in her arms her 10th adopted child, a boy from Venezuela, as another of her adopted children looks on.
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This photo from around 1973 shows Baker performing in Monte Carlo.
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Josephine Baker and her husband Jo Bouillon are seen with their adopted family at tea at their home, the Chateau des Milandes in France, in this 1956 photo.
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Baker gives copies of her children's book "The Rainbow Children" to refugee children in Hamburg in 1957. The singer and dancer had a vision of a multi-cultural family.
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