Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
African American Service to Country • V (Violence), TV-14, 01-Jun-2018
Directed by Daniel Leonard Bernardi
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem Hell Fighters" of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Black cultural development.
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