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| | Polk Miller's Old South Quartette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | As to their voices, they are the sweet, though uncultivated, result of nature, producing a harmony unequaled by the professionals, and because it is natural, goes straight to the hearts of the people. |
 | | We expected that the demand for these records would be confined almost exclusively to the South, as the request that they be catalogued emanated from that section. |
 | | Travel was especially difficult in the South, where Jim Crow was the law of the land and members of the quartet were forbidden to use restaurants, saloons, drinking fountains, lavatories, train cars, hotels, and hospitals designated for whites. |
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