From the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series
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Produced by: Betty Bailey and Carol Lynde | Documentary | USA | 9:50
As a young man, jazz musician Herb Jeffries stood up for an ideal, assuming the identity of a man of color in a racially segregated society. Now at age 96, Jeffries talks about his true Irish and Sicilian heritage and the musical career that continues to transcend race.