Coalhouse Walker Jr. - real person?

i dont believe so

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hey we read this in english just last month so i know a little about it lol. Coalhouse is fictional HOWEVER, he is loosly based on Scott Joplin (jazz composer). Some of the similarities include where they come from (St. Louis i believe), the time in which they came to New York, and perhaps the most interesting was that Joplin wrote an opera called TREEMONISHA. In this opera, a black baby is found under a tree (just like in the novel/musical). This baby eventually becomes a black culture icon (i forget the whole synopsis). This is not unlike Coalhouses Son in the NOVEL. Tateh uses his son in his motion pictures in a movie about a white kid and a black kid who become friends and rise above racism (or something to that nature).
haha so longwinded..... sorry.

In conclusion, he is fictional but loosely based upon Joplin

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HOLD UP

When I was in NYC 1.25, we were in some subway place across from tthe Carnegie Hal ltheatre, and there were names of the people would had performed there or who had appeared there...and I could have SWORN they had Coulhouse Walker up there........

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