Josephine Baker is the first Black woman to be inducted into France's Pantheon

Josephine Baker poses in Paris in the 1930s.

The trailblazing U.S.-born star and civil rights activist was given France's highest honor on Tuesday when she was inducted into the Pantheon. She first achieved fame in Paris in the 1920s.

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