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TruevineBeth Macy
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Truevine

420 pagesFirst published 20161 edition
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The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
HardcoverLittle, Brown and Company20164209780316337540
African American entertainersPERFORMING ARTS / CircusRacism in popular cultureRace relationsChild circus performersCircus performersHistoryChildren of sharecroppers