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In the years following her arrival on Ellis Island with little more than a razor and a slim roll of bank notes, St. Clair would become queen of the numbers game, facing off against both the Black underworld and the white mafia. Traversing the era from the First World War, Prohibition, the Great Depression, the Second World War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, she became an iconic figure of the Harlem Renaissance, as a ruthless lady gangster but also as consort and benefactor to such heroes of the movement as W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem pulls you into the life of an unforgettable woman, who will capture your imagination. This is a rare, whirling, energetic book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of <i>We Cast a Shadow<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is a strange lottery\u2026 Baroness of illegal bets and muse of the black intelligentsia, St\u00e9phanie St. Clair traversed the New York of the 20th century, bringing the Crime Syndicate to their knees and getting Harlem to its feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014Slate<\/i> (Fanny Menceur)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis singular and little-known story allows Rapha\u00ebl Confiant to portray an era of social and political violence, an era of major upheavals that also saw the emergence of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014Jeune Afrique<\/i> (Nicolas Michel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/raphael-confiant\">Rapha\u00ebl Confiant<\/a><br \/>\n9781944884567<br \/>\nTrue story of the rise of Madame St. Clair, the Martinican refugee who took Harlem by storm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[236,17],"product_tag":[381,45,382,109,96,339,336,338,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-2439","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-dialogos","8":"product_tag-ebook","9":"product_tag-fiction","10":"product_tag-fiction-translation","11":"product_tag-france","12":"product_tag-french","13":"product_tag-hodna-bentali-gharsallah-nuernberg","14":"product_tag-martinique","15":"product_tag-patricia-hartland","16":"product_tag-raphael-confiant","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"featured","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-variable","25":"berocket_lgv_grid","26":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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