The Harlem Renaissance

Cab Calloway

— Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

— Self (archive footage)

Louis Jordan

— Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

— Self (archive footage)

Bill Robinson

— Self (archive footage)

Nat King Cole

— Self (archive footage)

Lena Horne

— Self (archive footage)

Charlie Parker

— Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

— Self (archive footage)

Count Basie

— Self (archive footage)

Fats Waller

— Self (archive footage)

Fletcher Henderson

— Self (archive footage)

Sidney Bechet

— Self (archive footage)

Dorothy Dandridge

— Self (archive footage)

Billy Eckstine

— Self (archive footage)

Warren Schaefer

— Narrator