Category: History of people
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Josephine Baker: flapper girl, spy, and civil rights activist
Reading Time: 3 minutes With her slicked-down hair, smoky eyes and dark lips, Josephine Baker was the epitome of the 1920s flapper girl. She became the world’s first internationally recognised African-American entertainer.
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Sam Cooke: music, mystery and murder
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aged just 33, Sam Cooke, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist was shot and killed on the 11th December 1964. His legacy has been described as ‘complicated’ due to the murky circumstances that surround his death. But what really happened…
