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Long Live the Queenie: Stephanie St. Claire

Ridiculous Crime

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The New York Police - She's Just Trying to Protect the Black Community

She paid for ads and local papers because she wanted to educate the community on their legal rights. She's just, these are our basic civil rights as Americans, something that all of us should know and live. The New York police were mad racist at this time. They came after her and she wound up doing eight months in a workhouse Because of that. So prohibition comes and goes; Harlem numbers game just doesn't mean anything anymore.

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