In 1955, as the Soviet Union’s pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism spread globally, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Dave Brubeck travel the globe to perform as cultural ambassadors.
2018
HD
60min
United States
English
Hugo Berkeley
Quincy Jones
Leslie Odom Jr.
Louis Armstrong
Dizzy Gillespie
Darius Brubeck
Bill Crow
Duke Ellington
Charlie Persip
cold war
jazz singer or musician
civil rights
race relations
racial segregation
jim crow laws
