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Meaning & History
Appears in the novel (1975), movie (1981) and musical (1998) Ragtime, on the character Coalhouse Walker Junior, and his son, Coalhouse Walker III. The writer of Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow, was inspired to name Coalhouse Jr. this after a character named Michael Kohlhaas, who has a very similar story to Coalhouse Walker Jr.