I believe there was a blues/gospel song about the sinking of the Titanic.
Supposedly Jack Johnson was refused a fare on the Titanic by the owner who
said "This ship doesn't haul coal."
>One important aspect of the Titanic disaster not mentioned in the film
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>The White Star Line made a particular point of not hiring any Black
>workers, even porters or coal stokers, who were common on other
>steamships. The sinking was celebrated in African-American communities
>as an act of retribution, probably one of the first examples of what
>now might been called the "O.J. Simpson phenomenon."
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