In 1950s New York, an older Black man quietly operated an elevator at Rockefeller Center. His passengers had no idea they were riding with a decorated war hero, a former spy, a Paris jazz-club owner, and the first Black American military pilot in history.

This episode follows Eugene Jacques Bullard from Jim Crow-era Georgia to the trenches of World War I, the skies over France, and the heart of 1920s Parisian nightlife, only to find his hardest battles waiting back home in America. It is a story of relentless reinvention and dignity in the face of a country that refused to recognize him until decades after his death.

• How an 11-year-old ran away from Georgia and stowed away on a freighter chasing his father's stories of a fairer France
• His combat record with the French Foreign Legion and the elite 'Swallows of Death,' earn ...