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Arriving later in life as an only child to Jessye Leflore and Charlie Stephens Miller, Billy Ruth burst upon the world in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on September 30, 1929-just weeks before the stock market crash that launched the Great Depression. Moving from Vicksburg to Bassfield and finally...
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