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Mayme Hatcher Johnson, Wife Of Harlem’s “Bumpy” Johnson

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Mayme Hatcher Johnson, a native of North Carolina who spent most of her life in Harlem. Mrs. Johnson was born in 1914 in NC, and moved to New York City in 1938, where she found work as a waitress in a club owned by singer/actress Ethel Waters. Continue reading
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Stephanie St. Clair, “Queenie,” Queen Of The Harlem Racket

Stephanie St. Clair (1886 – 1969) was a bookmaker in Harlem. Madam St. Clair was born of mixed French and African descent on Martinique.

She immigrated to the United States via Marseilles in 1912 and ten years later took $10,000 of her own money and set up a numbers bank in Harlem.

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