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Article: Cut off at the roots: Ragtime, a historic black music, struggles to draw diversity in a community where it began.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2007
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Byline: Mary T. Nguyen
May 20--America struggled through the late 1800s as it began to reconstruct and reunite itself as a nation. Populations legally free sought social acceptance and security. Particularly in the South, hate and resentment ran high, and lynching was used to express deeply held grudges.
Despite the strife and divide felt between whites and blacks, America bred a number of pioneers who would shape its culture in leaps and bounds while transcending color barriers.
Music especially united people, and by the 1890s, artists including native Missourians John William "Blind" Boone and Scott Joplin laid the foundation of American ...