On board Admiral Peary's ship, Father encounters the ship's First Officer, Matthew Henson, and is shocked to find he is a black man. He assures her that nothing will change in his absence but Mother, feeling adrift without dreams of her own, hopes differently. He asks Mother to oversee his affairs, her first experience with any kind of independence. Mother and her Family say goodbye to Father as he embarks on Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole. ![]() As the century dawns, the separate worlds of New York City begin to blur together. Washington and Emma Goldman and entertainers Harry Houdini and Evelyn Nesbitt, who has been catapulted into fame by the murder of her wealthy lover Stanford White by her millionaire husband Harry K. These three disparate worlds are connected only by celebrities: tycoons such as JP Morgan and Henry Ford, activists such as Booker T. Meanwhile, immigrants from all parts of the globe set out to seek better lives in the tenements of the lower east side, among them Tateh, a Jewish artist from Latvia, and his young daughter. Theirs is a genteel, sheltered atmosphere, far from the bustle of Harlem, where the African American community, including a beautiful young woman named Sarah, explores a new kind of music pioneered by a pianist named Coalhouse Walker Jr. The first is an upper class Protestant family from New Rochelle - Mother, Father, Mother's Younger Brother, Grandfather, and the Little Boy, Edgar. Steven Sutcliffe - Mother's Younger BrotherĪmerican experience at the turn of the 20th century begins with the introductions of three families from three different worlds, all contained within New York City.Brian Stokes Mitchell - Coalhouse Walker. ![]() Ragtime is a musical based on the book by E.L.
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