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Sufi Abdul Hamid, The “Black Hitler” Of Harlem

Posted on April 28, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Sufi Abdul Hamid (born Eugene Brown) (January 6, 1903 in Lowell, Massachusetts – July 30, 1938) was an African-American religious and labor leader, and among the first African converts to Islam, accused of Anti-Semitism. Continue reading →

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Stephanie St. Clair, “Queenie,” Queen Of The Harlem Racket

Posted on November 8, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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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Casper Holstein, King Of The Harlem “Numbers Rackets”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Born Dec. 7, 1876, in Christiansted, Holstein of mixed African and Danish descent in St. Croix, Danish West Indies — whose birth name was Egbert Joseph — immigrated to Harlem in 1884 with his mother and went to high school in Brooklyn. His father was a landed person of color who was in turn the son of a Danish officer in the Danish West Indies Colonial militia. Attending high school in Brooklyn, he enlisted in the United States Navy following his graduation. During World War I, he was able to revisit his birthplace while stationed in what had become the United States Virgin Islands. Continue reading →

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