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In the early 20th century, two African-American albino brothers named George and Willie Muse endured a life far from ordinary. Raised through grit and sharec...
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Sep 7, 2023 · In the early 20th century, a captivating yet heart-wrenching story unfolded, centered around two albino African-American brothers, George and Willie Muse. Their lives took a dramatic turn when they were plucked from a Virginia farm and thrust into the bright lights of the circus world.
*** CORRECTION TO INFO IN VIDEO: GEORGE DIED FIRST, THEN WILLIE ***This is the tragic story of two young brothers who were kidnapped from a farm in the early...
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May 14, 2023 · George and Willie Muse, two young African American brothers from Virginia, were kidnapped and forced to join a traveling circus in the early 1900s. Their liv...
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George and Willie Muse were two brothers who grew up in Truevine, part of a sharecropping family that lived in a tobacco farming community near Roanoke, Virginia. The two brothers were both albinos, a feature that Willie claimed prompted
Jul 10, 2018 · The two brothers were kidnapped as boys in Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 by bounty hunters and forced into the circus. Upon their capture, they were falsely told that their mother was dead and...
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Aug 25, 2021 · In the comfort of their home, the brothers were known to tell rambling stories of their harrowing misadventure. George Muse died of heart failure in 1972 while Willie carried on until 2001 when he died at the age of 108.
