Mob History-Stephanie St.Claire

This is the story of Stephanie St. Claire known as Madam Queen of policy. She used the numbers racket to build an empire in Harlem back in the 20's . She resisted the incursion of Dutch Shultz into to Harlem.
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[@pauliedibbs9028]

We wouldn’t have a lottery if it wasn’t for Ms. St. Claire!

[@darthcheney7447]

She needs her own movie.

[@afewbadmen.]

I hear they are working on on

[@afewbadmen.]

One

[@CRAIG5835]

@@afewbadmen. We knew what you meant Big Daddy. She was quite a looker too. Beyonce would rock the part.

[@Gl6619]

@@afewbadmen. I think with Hollywood green lighting anything with people of color..now would be the time to try to get it out there.. I’m also working on a script involving Eunice Carter..a black lawyer who helped bring down Lucky Luciano…it actually part of a larger story involving Murder Inc.

[@jamiewilson5679]

Definitely 👍.

[@rahmelisrough]

Great presentation! Educational and entertaining! 👍 #thanksforposting

[@charlesharper7292]

Lady came up rough. Too bad. Glad she pulled it off. Thanks for the history lesson.

[@gemcitysnowoppfreeirishmob9777]

Madam St Clair wouldn't lasted long without Bumpy Johnson

[@Will-ex2wr]

I did not know alot of these things about her. She build a empire and stood up for herself and others. Great coverage on Stephanie St. Claire.

[@damienreilly8061]

The movie Hoodlum was roughly based on her, Bumpy Johnson and those events. Was a really good movie, if u ain't seen it its worth a watch.

[@brianmorgan5739]

Stephanie Saint Clare. The Queen of the Harlem Number's game.

[@TheWoodland12]

I just found your channel and I love it sir! You are amazing at telling peoples stories.

[@afewbadmen.]

Thanks pal welcome to the gang 💥💥💥

[@anthonytripp2251]

One of your best yet. Great research and I love the background film. I had heard that Diahanne Carroll's father was a numbers kingpin who held a straight job with the MTA.

[@CRAIG5835]

She was a doll when she was Earle J Waggadorns' best buddies mom.

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

She was a Boss Lady before it was a thing!❤️

[@charlesharper7292]

Stephanie St. Claire. I like the lady. She's tough.

[@askianvan]

Excellent piece. She would have gone to Montreal initially- almost all native french speakers would live there for a few months and learn english and then take the "maple leaf" train to NY when coming to America.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Great job, Boss! Fascinating Iady.

[@glock10mm]

Just found you're channel a couple weeks ago .very informative I love it

[@afewbadmen.]

Welcome to the gang pal💥💥💥

[@georgiadawgs9367]

I like that you do interviews on gangsters us gangster fans never hear much on suuurrrre

[@danwilson1040]

Enjoyed that one Boss ,It would be interesting to see one on Bumpy Thank you ,great work as always 👍🏻🙏🏻🥷

[@BillyBobThot]

JUST MADE MY DAY GREAT PIC!!!

[@michaelhemphill8575]

"Dutch Schultz".." finally figured".."not all these Black People are afraid of his ass".."That sister was the prototype for Female Gangstas ".."Black or White".."and on top of that..was an activist on behalf of her people".."21Gun Salute Madame"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JackBlack-tu6xp]

Good stuff love your show facto can't wait til next week you blow my mind every week thanks

[@afewbadmen.]

Stay tuned pal.

[@respectlife216]

Hey man you got to do one on the Genna Brothers, and the war in Chicago over the unione siciliana (Sicilian Union). Or the mafia in Chicago in other words, aside from the north side gang and the Chicago outfit with Capone.

[@JAYESCOTT1]

Well done. Can you do one on Frank Matthews? Thanks!

[@robinonthemachine2505]

I absolutely loveeeee Boss Ladies!

[@jayfelsberg1931]

Yesyesyesyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite lady gangster!

[@karenhollywood3523]

Damn! Ms. Stephanie was one bad ass woman... she is my new heroine! Thanks for highlighting her story. Gonna check out more on this channel, because I know if the first one I watched was 🔥 FIRE 🔥, there's more! 🙌🏼📺🙌🏾

[@afewbadmen.]

Yes she was . Thanks for watching and welcome to the gang.💥💥💥

[@mack7518]

Love your content Sir You and Bloodletters &Badmen are what I watch the most when it comes to mob stories from the prohibition era. Salute 🫡

[@timsmith1323]

Big fan of both plus OC Shortz. So happy bloodletters is back

[@respectlife216]

Bloodletters and badmen was a 700-page book that I used to read in my high school library back in 1999. It was that and the mafia encyclopedia. Those two books taught me everything about organized crime.

[@nolabigeasy1435]

Great research and reporting. You earned your bones

[@shilohbrutalis582]

"Singing like Eddie Cantor". Only the Billy Burke fans will get that one

[@vikmarisco5679]

"Singing like Eddie cantor to the cops" had me rolling!!

[@Crobertg10]

Thanks!

[@nickyscarfo3162]

Stephanie st Claire is most badass African American gangster

[@alexkalish8288]

My uncle Jerry worked with this woman running numbers for her in the lower east side. He drove a Cord and had her picture which he kept well into the 70's when he passed away. He was never arrested as far as i'm aware, but the FBI made him shut down his part of the racket when the war stared, they took his Cord automobile and made him work at a war plant - but never prosecuted him...

[@afewbadmen.]

That is great I love when people have real life experiences with the individuals I cover . Thanks for watching 💥💥💥

[@aegontargaryen9322]

I had never heard of that lady before . She had some guts that’s for sure

[@dantheman4838]

Quality upload as always. Keep them coming, Boss.

[@CRAIG5835]

Your channel gets great comments about your creativity in throwing a vid together. Great stuff Big Daddy Bad, aka The Boss. Da Bawse.

[@harrybaker9117]

Nice Job on Madame St. Clair. Caspar Holstein is another of the old school gangsters who is somewhat forgotten. He was one of the policy game kingpins back in the day.

[@oluhamilton2121]

My GRANDUNCLE.

[@afewbadmen.]

@@oluhamilton2121 Wow

[@007ndc]

I read that Caspar Holstein was the inspiration for the Jeffrey Wright character Dr. Narcisse in Boardwalk Empire

[@harrybaker9117]

@@007ndc That’s the same info I read about Holstein.

[@orchidlilly7518]

Thank-you

[@gregorydixon5191]

This woman tougher than some men I know

[@charleswinokoor6023]

“Shots rang out!” I need to hear that at least once a day.

[@FKAvictoria]

My friend and I like “A Few Bad Men” a lot. Would you please tell us the fantastic background music title. Thank you.

[@afewbadmen.]

Thanks Love. The main song is The Mooch by Duke Ellington

[@FKAvictoria]

@@afewbadmen. Thank you. We are listening in downtown Manhattan.

[@dlowe404]

Great work.

[@thumbygreen]

Great portrayal of the lady. Never heard of Hamid, maybe a little more on this guy. thanks for a most interesting channel

[@afewbadmen.]

I will try to do one I’m behind. I’m trying to catch up.

[@tracyheyward5125]

Are you going to do one on the 40 thieves and their gun molls?

[@ruthhaywood3473]

Yes u did it again. My name us Ruthie Haywood Jones . I just subscribed

[@afewbadmen.]

Welcome to the gang Ruthie. thank you.

[@dwayneclemons5497]

I've always loved and has been inspired by Stephanie St. Clair. There was another, who I'd consider as "sorta, kinda a contemporary of Stephanie St. Clair." Her name was, Odessa Madre, A.K.A. ‘The Lady Al Capone.’ Without going into it too much, there were a lot of characteristic similarities between the two. Except Ms. Madre's turf was in Washington D.C. Check her out, if you haven't already.

[@bigjon.6258]

I love it❤❤

[@chrisphillips8466]

They need to do a movie on her

[@hugosophy]

They sorta did.. Hoodlum

[@luisbohorquez7096]

Mary J.Blige should play her 🥰🤙😊

[@DStar267]

Aye Boss, I bought that subscribe button a ticket to Australia…

[@afewbadmen.]

Good riddance 💥💥💥

[@charleswinokoor6023]

What kinds of biographies and other reading material do you typically use? Maybe you can recommend some for those of us who want to read up on these characters. You always give us a good introduction.

[@afewbadmen.]

I have a closet full of gangster books 😂😂😂but I can suggest some reading materials.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

@@afewbadmen. I thought that might be the case. Obviously you and everyone else who has a keen interest in history has to gather information from somewhere. I just think it might be helpful if now and then you can recommend something that’s available to the public for those of us who want to explore a little deeper. But you do a great job distilling and summarizing everything. And it’s not easy being a good storyteller who presents a lot of information and has a sense of humor. Keep on keeping on, Lone Ranger, and see yiz in the funnies.

[@harryabrams4993]

Another great history that needed to be told! Inspires me to ask you to consider a bio of Polly Adler, the most famous/notorious madame of her day in New York City and during the prohibition era. Thank you again!

[@afewbadmen.]

@@charleswinokoor6023 Gotcha Pal

[@Gl6619]

@@afewbadmen. please list some of the books…I’ve read a couple on murder inc and starting one on Operation Family Secrets…

[@bernadinesackinger7115]

Could you do Tilly Devine and some other bad women?

[@jasonrobinsonjr]

Competition is a Bitch. Stay on this. The Friends are with you. It may look fun. But,. It ain't easy.

[@shangtatum1395]

U the best with this i love it

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

These really were “the funny papers,” weren’t they! MG! The NERVE of people back before Social Security cards & picture IDs! When I viewed the Dutch vlog, I KNEW The Boss would have the goods on Madame Queen as well. Escaping a sex fiend only to end up “gang banged” (original translation) by a lynch mob on a passenger bus was brutal! Too bad Ms. St. Claire had no sanctuary & wasn’t one for staying out of sight & staying inconspicuous. Hamid sounds like a real Rocky Horror precursor. Ms. St. Claire (probably pronounced “Sinclare”) should’ve consulted an old-time matchmaker, being from Guatemala where the Spain-empire had colonies. I’m sure she could’ve found someone able to dodge “shots ringing out” half as well as she could, somewhere closer to that Harlem section that became Spanish eventually. A colorful life, but unjustly brief all the same. She’d have made a great contributor to films & documentaries, has she lived longer. PEACE ☮️ to The Boss. Very, very well organized and “funny,” a touching, funny, story. 🌺🌷🪷

[@mauriceyarbrough3840]

Yes they need a full movie on her asap,,as well as some of the other wealthy blacks back in those times

[@davidmellish3295]

Not the only female boss,but maybe the only female boss from that era. Griselda Blanco has to be one of the richest, powerful, feared and respected bosses of all time ( a self made BILLIONAIRE) and she was female. There have been VERY few " made " men have been billionaires, I think just John Defonza out of Chicago may be the only one

[@Cracktaculus]

There's that one supermodel of pre-war Germany who volunteered as commandant at a concentration camp in Poland, she was a cruel, sadistic, psycho. There's a couple narco bitches in Mexico prolly' shovel lime on yer ass without blinkin'!

[@davidmellish3295]

@@Cracktaculus yeah but not too many of them naro bitches have been bosses though. Griselda was a boss with a multi billion dollar empire, part of the richest, most powerful and violent cartels of all time. They owned Colombia and Miami back in the 70s and 80s

[@Cracktaculus]

@@davidmellish3295 that's right, Griselda made Ma Barker look like Ma Barker, shitty mom.

[@davidmellish3295]

@Cracktaculus well Ma Barker wasn't a gangster at all, that's been 1000000000000000% proved to be an FBI sponsored myth that they said to cover the fact they slaughtered her and her son Fred. All she did was jigsaw puzzles all day,as the famous bank robber Harvey Bailey said " that old woman couldn't even plan breakfast "

[@toudi_p]

Oh yeah. I forgot how come she died free in a columbian street and not in a prison cell? The bodies on her

[@fulton92503]

very good

[@Gl6619]

15:24 even if her older years she was still beautiful…black don’t crack never fails

[@geejackson5363]

I LIKE U MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP IT COMING!!!!!! I ALSO SUBSCRIBED.........

[@NoDiddyllc]

Do something in Boston or Charlestown

[@afewbadmen.]

I will for sure 💥💥💥

[@valentinius62]

In honor of Black History Month! 😂

[@NinaSimone24U]

Please don't Annoy Me...! 🐐

[@twizbk2990]

Antwan in the house ❤

[@ancienttechnique5830]

That subscribe button is swimming with the fishes

[@afewbadmen.]

You made your bones. Welcome to the gang pal 💥💥💥

[@robbizeen123]

Dope!!!!

[@lloyddavis3999]

GOOD VIDEO

[@Okayplaya]

This chic had ballsss 😂

[@johnfabio1781]

Go figure! They hung blacks by draging them from buses in the south, Yet Arthur was punked by Johnson And this Queen . Arthur' whats with you ?

[@ronaldslater4703]

"had lead for dessert"...:😂

[@demondbyrd30]

💯💯💯💯💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@afewbadmen.]

Thanks pal💥💥💥

[@loronetrulliot2606]

Madam Queen

[@MrCeora]

Dynamite woman.

[@AmaraPlayzRoblox239]

Black woman in this 2024 black history month show love

[@TheresaS-el8dd]

She a Bad Mama Jama!

[@MichaelJeffers75]

Was Dr, Narcisse from Boardwalk Empire based on Hamid?

[@afewbadmen.]

Casper Holstien

[@Patricia-h4o]

I SAW HER PORTRAYED IN THE MOVIE HOODLUM BY CEILY TYSON A MOVIE ABOUT HER WOULD BE GREAT

[@cashmayes2343]

WE BREAK THUMBS 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@elvinkrigsman6956]

She was good people

[@jasonrobinsonjr]

Interesting.

[@AmaraPlayzRoblox239]

Shout out to the Johnson or Jones brothers who started the lottery FBAF life

[@rda6029]

Shout out to casper holstein who taught them the game!

[@christopherstephens1129]

It was “Policy” Sam Young who brought the policy rackets to Chicago in the 1890. Casper Holstein never been to Chicago.

[@Cracktaculus]

Isn't there a Hollywood gangsterish flick with Lawrence Fishburn (Cotton Club?) where they show St. Claire running numbers?

[@afewbadmen.]

Hoodlum too

[@shivonferrell3665]

Do The Jones BROTHERS

[@italiano559n9]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Joe-pb3bm]

👍

[@bruceshelton5938]

Great show

[@krang_k]

She left Martinique not Guadeloupe

[@afewbadmen.]

Martinique is in Guadaloupe

[@thefrenchconnection_jhondo8292]

@@afewbadmen. no that's two ifferent island but they are close matter fact we call them the sister's island and we speak almost the same creole i know cause my mom from Martinique and my dad from guadeloupe.

[@helenwheels3341]

Why is there always annoying moosic in the background?!

[@timsmith1323]

Can we get Casper Holstein soon

[@stevenjohnson7989]

She made 30,000in two months,

[@briandenapoli3250]

That subscribe button is my mudda s friend how dare you

[@JulianSmith-d9o]

All hail the queen

[@yankeecanivers2654]

Can't make the name of her husband what did they call him black was all that came through what's with that