A look at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents as the White House’s head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
THE BUTLER is inspired by Wil Haygood’s Washington Post article about an African-American man who served as a butler to eight Presidents in the White House for over thirty years. From this unique vantage point, we trace the dramatic changes that swept American society from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family.
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