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#madamestclair #madamequeen #stephaniestclair #harlem #guadeloupe🇬🇵 The Madame Queen came to the US July 13, 2011. The hardships that she faced before coming to the US & what happened once she got here kind of gives us an idea as to why she didn't take kindly to being taken advantage of or pushed around. The assaults she suffered definitely hardened her. One boyfriend tried to turn her into a prostitute which got him a fork in his eye. Another boyfriend who was mad that she wanted to cut him out of her drug business attempted to strangle her, he ended up dead behind a cracked skull. She then went on to invest 10 grand into her own lottery game which resulted in her becoming Madame St. Clair. The Madame was a gangster & community activist. Through her policy banking she allowed black people opportunities that the system denied them. They were denied loans, they provided a way. They denied investing opportunities, she provided a way. They denied the people the means to find out about their legal rights, she made it known and available to them by way of the ads that she regularly took out. She advocated for their voting rights also & addressed police brutality. She wasn't afraid, the abuse she had suffered in her younger years had taken that fear away. No white or black man made her cower. The newspaper ads were also an insurance policy just in case if the corrupt police or Mafia tried to take her out. Aside from informing the people, her ads publicly let everyone know where she was & what she was doing, so everyone had a record of it. All of this was leading up to her getting out of the limelight. After her war with Dutch Schultz, the Madame Queen fell back and let her enforcer Bumpy Johnson take the lead. No movie as of yet as really touched upon how the Queen really went to war with Dutch, they've usually made it seem as if Dutch's crew came & did what they wanted. None have shown that she put a hit out on him and that's why Bumpy and others from the crew went so hard at the Schultz gang. More on that later. In the 2nd pic she's seated with her husband Sufi Abdul Hamid. The third pic is when Cicely Tyson played her in the 1997 film Hoodlum. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Fw01thwe-/?igshid=1up2qw1blfun5

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Let go when you’re hurting too much. Give up when love isn’t enough. Move on when your gut tells you to. Remember that you have been given this one gorgeous, sparkling, comet of a life and you are free and entitled to choose how to spend it. Don’t wait around for a permission slip, better timing, or a better financial situation… Go for it now. Madam St.Clair 💋💋💋 Shot By: @chrishnadagod Thank You For You Time Effort & Patients Working With Me #Pose #Love #SelfConfidence #PhotoOfTheDay #Fashion #Happy #Cute #BetAwards #MadameStClair (at Jersey City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGgjejgCOh/?igshid=12wvfw1zsdza7

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The various State Lotteries used to be an illegal criminal enterprise known as “The Numbers Racket” The State of New York legalized the activity in 1967 due to its overwhelming popularity and recognition of the revenue that could be made by the state. Soon after that all the States started their own “Lotto’s”. The “Numbers Racket” had its origin in Harlem in the 1920s. The activity was organized and popularized by Madam St. Clair. The Movie “Hoodlum” was made about her life and times. Here is her story. #MadameStClair #TheQueenofHarlem #StephanieStClair (1886–1969) was a female gang leader who ran numerous criminal enterprises in Harlem, New York in the early part of the 20th century. Despite resisting the interests of the Mafia for several years after Prohibition ended, she continued to be an independent operator never coming under mafia control .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. She became known throughout Manhattan as Queenie, but Harlem residents respectfully referred to her as Madame St. Clair. She became affiliated with the 40 Thieves gang but eventually branched off on her own and ran one of the leading numbers games in the city. She complained to local authorities about harassment by the NYPD, and when they paid no heed she ran advertisements in Harlem newspapers, accusing senior police officers of corruption. The police responded by arresting her on a trumped up charge, and in response she testified to the Seabury Commission about the kickbacks she had paid them. The Commission subsequently fired more than a dozen police officers .After the end of Prohibition, Jewish and Italian-American crime families saw a decrease in profits and decided to move in on the Harlem gambling scene. Bronx-based mob boss Dutch Schultz was the first to move in, beating and killing numbers operators who would not pay him protection. St. Clair and her chief enforcer Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson refused to pay protection to Schultz despite the amount of violence and intimidation by police

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Let go when you’re hurting too much. Give up when love isn’t enough. Move on when your gut tells you to. Remember that you have been given this one gorgeous, sparkling, comet of a life and you are free and entitled to choose how to spend it. Don’t wait around for a permission slip, better timing, or a better financial situation… Go for it now. Madam St.Clair 💋💋💋 Shot By: @chrishnadagod Thank You For You Time Effort & Patients Working With Me #Pose #Love #SelfComfidence #PhotoOfTheDay #Fashion #Happy #Cute #BetAwards #MadameStClair (at Jersey City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGgO3iAOmV/?igshid=lw1moltl5vl6

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#stephaniestclair #madamestclair #queen #boss #fearless #fly Stephanie St. Clair, Queenie, she's been immortalized in film twice. She actually needs a movie done that speaks to who she really was. Madame St. Clair was quite fly and fashionable as well as a boss in the Harlem streets. She was the rival of Casper Holstein as well as with the Italian Mafia. They never took over her operation. Don't let Hollywood fool you. She had no fear of them as you can see with the ad that she put in the newspaper, she was basically doing what entertainers do today. She taunted her rivals, the Italian mafia, with ads in the paper basically letting them know she wasn't scared. She did that a few times. She also spent money for ads educating her people about their rights, advocating for voting rights, and calling out police brutality. She also spent money on a lot of community projects. She sent her goons at Dutch Schultz. While he beat and killed other numbers operators, the Queen from the Caribbean wasn't going for it. Her telegram to Dutch deathbed was the shot heard across America. Boss chick for real. Unlike these current crop of clown rappers in wigs. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpkVW7ElTox/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=170ycgz2w7hhx