BUMPY JOHNSON: The Untold Tale of the Godfather of Harlem's Rise, Fall, and Legacy

🌟 Dive into the captivating tale of Bumpy Johnson, the legendary Godfather of Harlem! From his early struggles in Charleston to his epic battles against the Mafia, witness the rise and fall of this iconic figure in American organized crime history. 🏙️
👉 Learn about Bumpy's alliances, conflicts, and the epic showdowns that shaped his legacy. Discover the true extent of his influence in Harlem and the profound impact he left on the criminal underworld.
🚀 Uncover the secrets, scandals, and triumphs that defined Bumpy's journey, from his strategic moves against Dutch Schulz to his historic negotiation with Lucky Luciano. 🤝
🔍 Explore the complex relationships, unexpected twists, and the ultimate betrayal that led to Bumpy's imprisonment. Find out how he fought against the odds, earned respect, and became the unofficial ambassador of Harlem.
🌈 Join us as we unravel the enigma of Bumpy Johnson, the Robin Hood of Harlem, in this gripping narrative. 📖 Don't miss this extraordinary journey through the underworld that shaped one of America's most intriguing gangsters!
👊 #BumpyJohnson #GodfatherOfHarlem #OrganizedCrime #AmericanGangster #TrueCrime #LegendaryFigure #HarlemHistory 🕵️‍♂️
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[@tyronemccloud4361]

Thanks!

[@perryellis1423]

One correction Dutch Schultz was not a "associate" of the Mafia 5 families, he ran his own family and was considered as the 6th family of New York and after Bumpy defeated Dutch he was given the Dutchman's seat at the table. Therefore Bumpy was the only black male at the seat of power in new york underworld during the time of Lucky Luciano. It was 5 families of new york the media would proclaim, but in essence it was 6. Bumpy was the 6.

[@OyDoggy]

Bumpy never sat on the commission. He didn't even get a proxy vote like Philly or Cleveland. He was basically put in place because they needed someone who would take orders and he took orders. 6th family my butt. He wasn't even the boss of a glorified crew. He took heroin from the Genovese family to sell to his own people. He was a joke. No matter what a TV show would have you believe. if they wanted to put someone else in, they would have and no one could have done anything about it.

[@Nneoma85]

Thank you for those details. ❤❤

[@eastonriley2754]

He was apart of the commission so was apart of the mob

[@OyDoggy]

@@eastonriley2754 no non Italian has ever had a seat on the commission. I don't know where you heard that crap but it's 100% untrue. The only "6th family" that had anywhere near as much power as the New York 5 was the Outfit out of Chicago. Still Italian though. Now there were other families on the commission but they weren't as powerful. There was the Megaddino family from Buffalo, the Decavalcante family from Jersey, the Bruno family from Philadelphia, the Marcello family from New Orleans, what was known as the Detroit partnership, the Scalish family from Cleveland, the Civello family from Dallas, the Patriarchs family from New England, the "clique" from Kansas City, and the Trafficante family from Tampa . Some people count LA but none of them had a commission seat. The thing is that all of those families were really affiliated with one of the new York 5 who had their votes by proxy. Like the Gambino family had Philadelphia's proxy. The Genovese had Cleveland's which really just made them like colonies of those families. Also, look at those names. All Italian. Not even Mayer Lansky had a commission seat. Let alone Bumpy Johnson

[@Trwillis9]

chicago and Buffalo had a seat as well..

[@TariekhLindsey]

Bumpy's character should have made an appearance in Harlem nights

[@yashuisking]

He was quik character

[@drayaspencer8775]

Quick was acting as bumpy in the movie

[@shaundavis768]

Bumpy and Lucky became close after bumpy saved Lucky from getting shanked in Dannemora Prison. They would play chess at least once a week. I wouldn’t say they were close friends but both men respected each other .When Bumpy came home Lucky who was already exiled back to Italy told the families that Bumpy could operate independently without kicking anything up to the Mob and they should give him anything he needed. Bumpy was never a partner with the Mob he was an independent Operator . Anything that came through Harlem was ran by him first, thats how much Power he had as a Black man back then. He wasn’t a worker, he was a Boss. All the movies and films try to down play who Bumpy really was but if you do real research on him and even read the book that was written by his Wife you will find out the real truth on Mr Bumpy Johnson, A true Legend!!

[@CharlesBrown-yh7nk]

Bumpy would have been an example of an "EVP" executive vice president of Harlem, but still Lucky "the Italians" were in charge, and had the ultimate say. Bumpy was an independent as long as he kept the Harlem policy banks running smoothy, and they paid their street taxes.

[@teronsmith3771]

That was my guy rest well Bumpy Johnson

[@AveryHolmes-nz9ld]

Woooo this was good information from The great OG Mr Bumpy johnson😮😮😮😮

[@sonyamoyler9237]

No I never heard of Viola, I felt very disappointed about this situation, I have to refrain from being super angry. I really appreciate you sharing each and every horrible story, but you are an awesome story teller, please keep us informed we need this ❤️ obtw Detroit is my hometown and I live here now ❤️ Great job young man!!

[@BenjaminElijah-yq2wx]

For all the boardwalk empire fans out there.. That's the inspiration for Chalky White

[@carverrichardson2251]

Does the name spanky Johnson mean anything to you 😂

[@BenjaminElijah-yq2wx]

@@carverrichardson2251 that's the illustrious Rick James!!!! 😂👍

[@karlpitts3831]

freaky as fuck how the eyes move!

[@CRISTIANLEONARDOPREITI-qe3kp]

YEAH KARL!!!...I THOUGHT I WAS LOSIN' IT!!!!....LOL!!!....

[@venitabroussard6093]

I thought I was imagining it at first.

[@OleScratch1]

for fucks sake man, I'm glad i read this comment...That shit is disturbing. I thought I was seeing things.

[@indadrops9492]

Yeah it’s very strange

[@perryellis1423]

Also in prison bumpy had a reputation for whipping ass and in prison he actually met Lucky Luciano who was doing a bid for a drug bust back in the 1920's and he met and knew of Bumpy Johnson, and eventually their paths crossed again. Lucky knew that bumpy was vicious and loyal thats why he backed him into becoming the 6 chair in the 5 families of New York, its actually 6 families of New York

[@yashuisking]

False, he met one of the genivesse members

[@CharlesBrown-yh7nk]

So, what happened to the present day 6th family?

[@perryellis1423]

@CharlesBrown-yh7nk that is the Canadian family now, they're the quiet 6,

[@CharlesBrown-yh7nk]

@@perryellis1423 Ok. So, you are saying that Bumpy was on the same level as Charlie L, Joe P, Tom G, Joseph B, Vincent M., and Al C? How would he had become more powerful than M. Lansky who was only an associate, and Charlie L closet friend/advisor since they were teenagers, but yet could not attend a Commission meeting?

[@sabrinadawson7026]

I love mafia stories 😎

[@MrDJdo]

I dunno if this whole video was made with AI but there is some serious word salad going on i quote from "15:06 ...Luciano and other members of the American Organized Crime Syndicate decided it was imperative to eliminate Schultz. Schultz was being pursued by the law, and to evade the situation and appease things, assassinated a prosecutor named Thomas Duay. However, this solution was entirely unnacceptable to Luciano and his associates. I gunned Schultz down in a New Jersey restaurant, and later passed away in a hospital bed 15:33" Honestly WUT??? The prosecutor's name was not Duay but called Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971) and he wasn't assassinated by Schultz but as everyone can fact check: Dewey almost succeeded in apprehending mobster Dutch Schultz as well, but Schultz was murdered in 1935, in a hit ordered by The Commission itself; he had disobeyed The Commission's order forbidding him from making an attempt on Dewey's life "I gunned Schultz down in a New Jersey restaurant, and later passed away in a hospital bed" From this it is unclear to me who exactly gunned down Schultz in a New Jersey restaurant and why did that shooter end up passing away in a hospital bed ??? This phrase is totally hilarious.

[@CORNERSTOW]

I couldn’t make it thru this could have Been 10 minutes shorter I don’t need the encyclopedia’s version

[@AntoinMilligan]

Chuck towns on. Rest In Peace OG

[@-Gunnarsson-]

This subtitle is stressful

[@EllsworthJohnson-e9j]

That's my name bless 🙏🙏

[@davidwood2911]

From David A. Wood: Though New York City-based gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnston was, deservedly speaking, of high criminal importance in his sprawling Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan between the late 1930s-late1960s as Johnson went well out of his way to "keep things in the neighborhood peaceful" when he was Harlem's leading, ethnically Black Ameeican gangster during his heady period of Organized Criminal activity between the late 1930s-late 1960s, yet at best Johnson was an American Mafia associate, albeit one that was of high rank, of the leading American Mafia Family that had been originally led by Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962). Now that major American Mafia Family is named the Genovese Family, after one of Luciano's successors, Vito "Don Vitone" Genovese (1897-1969). Please do pardon me for not having mentioned Johnson's age chronologically as I had Luciano and Genovese's respective ages. I forgot when "Bumpy" Johnson was born, even though I knew that Johnson died of a heart attack in Harlem in 1968. Nuff Said and Peace Out from Kettering, Ohio, everybody. ☮️ 🇺🇸 😃👋✌️👍

[@jasper3127]

However nicely worded your diatribe is, and is correct at times, in fact mostly. But it's laughable to assert that, especially in those times, a Negro could be an associate of the Mafia! They were in fact in competition and not on very amicable terms mostly. More laughable still is the AI narration that pronounces Bub, as in Bub Hewlett, several ways but not once correctly!

[@kimberlybahrs5176]

Watching godfather of harlem

[@JosephMiller-u3t]

Interesting.......😮

[@mackmcmillan1984]

Just knowing what to do makes a difference

[@dorothyjeandandridge]

Laurence Fishburne played Bumpy in The Cotton Club (1984) and Hoodlum (1987)

[@LesterMoore]

With his consumate negotiating skills, our nation could use an Ellsworth Johnson our State Department's Chief Negotiator. Maybe even Secretary of State.

[@eros5556]

You dont have to make the eyes fucking move bro shits creepy

[@venitabroussard6093]

Very.

[@nikMmY]

0:30 non ce la faccio più ad ascoltarti

[@melvincoleman595]

We romance drug dealing and fell look at countless people, children, women , men and family who still deal with the pain it caused. Are there no victims?

[@kaindashoota2250]

No one was or is forcing them to choose drugs over their families and loved ones it’s a mind thing only weak minded people think it was the drug dealers fault

[@donnajackson9982]

BUMPY JOHNSON WAS MY GIRL FRIEND UNCLE JOANNE JOHNSON

[@kevingibson1580]

Bumpy wasn't in the mafia they just did business stop it

[@emanueltaylor7151]

He was Black. He couldn't be in that organization

[@CharlesBrown-yh7nk]

@@emanueltaylor7151 Even M. Lansky was only an associate.

[@caspercares4131]

He was a part of the Black mafia. There were other mafia klans other than the Italians

[@Cassandra-kp9wl]

Bumpy had his own ORGANIZATION...He was a big Bo"$ In harlem HaHARLEM

[@CharlesBrown-yh7nk]

@@caspercares4131 You mean black criminal groups? Yes.

[@keydraworldexplorer5389]

Some disorganized AI bs.

[@rodneycooke6538]

A better method of describing these lotteries … for us ol schoolers, it’s called playing the numbers! I grew up in The Bv, playing numbers for my parents at the Italian delis, meat kits and coffee shops.

[@Lee-od3zq]

Please. I have a very, very tough time following both the images and the odd narration for this video. First, the faces keep changing... and then sometimes at a blistering pace. Then one minute it is "Bob"... the next it is "Bab." And this kind of thing happens with other names and images. Why not get a real human voice and a script using accurate terminology? And nobody in the USA EVER referred to the numbers racket as a "lottery"...OMG! It was simply known as "the numbers"... period. Yessss. it worked similar to what is known today as a "lottery" or "lotto" but the numbers racket was never known as such. Furthermore, the name of the woman who ran the numbers racket jumps from one spelling and pronunciation to another... and her story is somewhat in error. Furthermore, the images of cars show totally or partially morphed designs that never were. One wonders why so much effort was made to create such fictional never-weres when the originals would have been far better (and more historically realistic) to view. Why?

[@Xrobberyx]

Bumpy Johnson is when you don’t wear protection

[@AyeJay20989]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kenpringle6568]

Are any of these pictures of Bumpy genuine??😮

[@TheGoat-y8y]

Nope

[@Marvin-p2p]

The mugshot

[@melvincoleman595]

We glo

[@Kingsessing]

Bcuz of crime? 😂😂😂

[@capone_rd_809]

Its crazy how all of this was created with AI

[@Lee-m8f7m]

😮😮The only people Bumpy did not fuck with was the old Nation of Islam. Believe that!

[@CORNERSTOW]

I made it 10 minutes and had to tap out smdh the European narrator gotta dumb it down jeesh 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@BeeBre525]

Kill the background music 😩

[@youngsequan]

This was excellent

[@jadaaleeshamindexpert7365]

Where do they get these photos from?

[@MafiaCrimeFiles]

Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment and for following our journey! We truly appreciate your support. Many of the images we share are generated by artificial intelligence, and we strive to bring them as close to reality as possible. We apologize if some of the photos don’t quite meet expectations, and we genuinely value your feedback. We look forward to seeing your insights on our upcoming videos! 😊

[@jadaaleeshamindexpert7365]

@@MafiaCrimeFiles ok... I don't know much about AI... so I don't even understand how it works... but ty

[@andrewhitaker7195]

A.I.

[@Mr921kevin]

Ai

[@badbadmanly903]

Charleston to Harlem is 750 miles, or about 1200 km.

[@sammartinez8084]

He work for dutch Schultz and he betrayed the Dutch men and was a great friend of Luke 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@Trwillis9]

*Dutchman… *LUCK OR LUCKY

[@leobutlerjr543]

Frank Matthews

[@blackbox1911]

How the heck is Charleston Sc 250 km from Harlem?

[@GingerMint215]

I wish these photos were of the real people. AI scenes. "Someone sentenced him"...huh????

[@116cowboy]

Try speaking English i dont know what the hell is 1.83 meters

[@chetumalkid]

Not their problem if you are a freaking ignorant

[@jrey6186]

3.3 x 1.83 = 1.83 meters in feet - in English, math up cowboy

[@GG-jw8pt]

About 6ft. We do both in Britain! 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@uncle_durrr]

All the AI pictures make this crap

[@martingrady6097]

Bump

[@RiverSideJettz88]

That movie was about Frank Lucas not Bumpy. KZbin knowledge for ya.

[@dennisclanton5342]

Glorifying someone that sold out the people to make a buck. You cant make this shit up.

[@John-eg3gy]

PAPA JOHNS

[@erindanelleavilaavilaguerr7251]

I can't go on mission

[@DomCalandra]

He would not have been allowed to operate without the italians.

[@lsjionredlinesupercharged2049]

What makes this documentary such a tragedy is this is American history and you're refusing to use American measuring system i.e. the imperial system 🫣🫣your essentially speaking to American people learning about him but using the metric system smh

[@theguy0594]

Get over yourself man

[@lsjionredlinesupercharged2049]

@ nope

[@JamesMurry-jn9bo]

Fake Frank Lucas quote. I’ve watched every interview of the real Frank Lucas and he couldn’t even spell some of those words you said lol

[@logicaljuan]

Charleston is about 1,250km from Harlem. Not 250km

[@blairmarshall544]

Ah you’re one of them. Bore off

[@SatriaRastagar]

[@MastaMacon]

🎉

[@DaveAlexandermusic]

Try 600 and some miles from Charleston geography right

[@MarquisCrowder-v9q]

You mean bumby Johnson or Frank lucus

[@BlueSosa-q5g]

🤔

[@leifnielson6849]

Well, I think the Italians put him in charge so they didn't have to deal with the blacks

[@jadaaleeshamindexpert7365]

Black men never wear their hair so low back then.

[@johnjones5916]

Wrong the ceaser and process were popular my Nana worked in the numbers bank for Mr Johnson look up Ulysses Rollins Bumpys nemesis

[@wesleyterry8772]

yes they did

[@nwilliams-rq8eq]

He was a criminal

[@AllenMichael-pl6ps]

Glorify him why don't ya.

[@Malama_Ki]

This story is completely false

[@brianjones7660]

laughable animation.....what middle school students did it....?

[@jrey6186]

madeaneffortU and is better than you ...

[@FESTOFOL-h4s]

I enjoyed the glamourized Bumpy. This clip leaves a bad taste. Should have stuck to the Bumpy in series.

[@jrey6186]

So much critical comments - anyone else producing content? ya that's what I thought ... smfh

[@amadhaun22]

What a dreadful presentation. Mispronounced and misguided dialogue. Erroneous and exaggerated stories.

[@rogueroyals7517]

How you know was you there😅

[@abdurrazzaqghazzi5379]

They going BLOCK me For this She Never has Been in or around one like that ever before in her Life!!!!! Lies So Much She Doesn’t Know what Real Is Cause She See Threw !!!!!

[@MaziJahanbakhsi]

دوست عزیز این چه وضعه حرف زدنه یعنی چی مثلا

[@MafiaCrimeFiles]

‎سلام دوست عزیز. اول از همه از اینکه ویدیوی ما را تماشا کردید صمیمانه متشکریم. زبان اصلی کانال ما انگلیسی است و سعی کرده ایم از هوش مصنوعی برای احترام به سایر زبان های اصلی استفاده کنیم و به شما امکان تماشای ویدیوهای دوبله شده به زبان خودتان را بدهیم. اگر از کیفیت راضی نبودید عذرخواهی می کنیم. توصیه می کنیم ویدیوها را به زبان اصلی تماشا کنید و از زیرنویس به زبان خودتان استفاده کنید. یک بار دیگر از اینکه ما را دنبال می کنید صمیمانه تشکر می کنیم. 🙏🌺

[@know_not_wickedness]

He was a wimp and snitch.