World of Stephanie St. Clair
Author
Shirley Stewart
Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem - earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster to run an operation of that size.