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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Remembering “Bronze Buckaroo” Herb Jeffries, the First Star of Black Western Musicals

He also recorded a standard with Duke Ellington, married the stripper Tempest Storm and lived to be 100, more or less. But the strangest thing about Herb Jeffries is that he passed for black.

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