Josephine Baker's speech influenced the March on Washington by talking to the audience about justice and freedom. Baker was the only woman who addresses the crowd. Josephine Baker spooked more than 20 minute to the audience. Her speech was simple and plainspoken. Baker detailed her experiences with a segregated America and her commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. Baker had stepped out to the podium in her French resistance uniform from the war. Josephine Baker had seen a glimpse of the dream that Martin Luther King Jr. So eloquently spoke about. Baker opened her speech by expressing her shared experiences of living in the south and pursuing her dreams in a segregated America. She was one of the first African American women to star in