Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
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Williams Public Library - Non-Fiction
791.3 MACY
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420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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 their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Macy, B. (2016). Truevine: two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South . Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macy, Beth. 2016. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest : A True Story of the Jim Crow South. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macy, Beth. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest : A True Story of the Jim Crow South Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Macy, Beth. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest : A True Story of the Jim Crow South Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
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