The Story of Kidnapped Brothers George and Willie Muse

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 2, 2016

Journalist Beth Macy discusses her book, Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South. She tells the true story of George and Willie Muse, two black albino brothers born to a sharecropper family in the Jim Crow South who were kidnapped and forced to become sideshows in a traveling circus. Their mother spent 28 years trying to get them back.

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