Cecil Brown

It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee Stagolee Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the Stags, Stagolee makes alliances with the Democratic Party and votes for a Democratic...