Combining unseen period footage with original scores from that era, Noble Sissle’s Syncopated Ragtime tells the story of Noble Sissle’s incredible life journey that spans segregation in the wake of emancipation, “The Harlem Hellfighters” of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Black cultural production and creative resistance as the unofficial Mayor of Harlem. Sissle is perhaps best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along and its hit song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry." He performed with James Reese Europe, Eubie Blake, and countless other leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.