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Meet the most famous band you’ve never heard of.
Admired by Twain, recorded by Edison, disbanded by fear.
In the early 1900s, Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette was one of America’s most popular acts.
Polk Miller was the banjo-strumming Confederate veteran.
Anderson Epps was the quartet leader, once enslaved by Miller’s family.
Together, a white man and four African Americans dared to tour Jim Crow America.
Integration or exploitation?
Over a century later, their stories matter.
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