The story of a most unusual man–the one-legged tap dancer and resort owner Peg Leg Bates, who at the height of his fame created an all-black resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York.  Bates’ remarkable life starts in the cotton fields of South Carolina, follows him on the road in minstrel shows and vaudeville, to Harlem in its heyday, and to a record-breaking 22 appearances on the legendary Ed Sullivan Show.