Josephine baker was a key catalyst at the march on Washington and gave a powerful and uplifting speech Josephine had not been a stranger to racial injustice from when she was a child she experienced the cruel senseless hate which led to her fleeing to France only to come back to america to experience more hate and a failed attempt to have her name slandered that was the final straw she new she had to speak out and stand up for their rights she wanted to encourage her fellow African Americans to do the same Josephine"s points for making her speech is that she wanted to give some insight of how things were in France compared to america another point is how she experienced hate and many altercations which led to her being falsely accused of being
