A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Keywords:
New york city
Based on novel or book
Jazz singer or musician
Public murder
Racism
Class differences
Pianist
Ragtime
Revenge killing
Radical politics
Piano
Political scandal
Racial injustice
1900s
Social scandal
Movie tag line: "The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age."
Character: Younger Brother
Character: Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Character: Evelyn Nesbit
Character: Mother
Character: Father