Associated Press. But she was a tireless fighter for the freedom of all.“The times are probably more conducive to having Josephine Baker’s fights resonate: the fight against racism, anti-Semitism, her part in the French Resistance,” Kupferman said. “The Panthéon is where you enter not because you’re famous but because of what you bring to the civic mind of the nation.”In the Panthéon, she will join the likes of scientist Marie Curie, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, writers Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, and many more.
She will be just the sixth woman honored at the shrine and the first American-born person, in addition to being the first woman of color.Baker was born to a single mother in St.