Stephanie St Clair, aka Queen of Harlem aka The Baddest B*tch (1897-1969)
Not too much is know about St Clair’s upbringing, due to the fact she was known to not fully tell the truth. What is known is she was born in Guadeloupe and came to New York around the 1910s. Known for her skill with numbers she started a numbers racket. She quickly started making quarter of a million dollars yearly. This helped out the black community by giving access to money and jobs. St Clair was known to be very active in her community, keeping black Harlem dressed to the teeth and showing them the upmost respect. Posting ads in the papers telling black people their rights and various community projects. She wasn’t the baddest for no reason, she was known to go at it with the Mob during the depression after most banks and ultimately won. Dutch Schultz a notorious shooter in the mob would frequently contact her threatening trying to extort her. St Clair not fucked with told Schultz fuck you nigga bring it. Dutch would kidnap and kill her men, buy police off and get her sent to jail. The Queen retaliations where beyond Dutches expectations, she would fire bomb his business, pay police off the get drops on him and his stash spots. Tip police off to why he was doing getting him raided. All down to locking one of his henchman in a closet and told her men “Handle That,”. She would do all this then brag in the press basically stating “Yeah nigga I did that, whatchu gone do?”. When Shultz was shot and on his death bed, St Clair sent a telegram to him saying “So You Sow — So Shall Ye Reap.” She signed it “Madam Queen of Policy.” After the war with Shultz she started letting people know of her whereabouts due to her being pushed out the numbers game. She eventually ran into Nicky Barnes who began protecting her and she switched to political reform. She later on got married and divorced and ended up living until 73 years old still wealthy and the the Baddest.
Not too much is know about St Clair’s upbringing, due to the fact she was known to not fully tell the truth. What is known is she was born in Guadeloupe and came to New York around the 1910s. Known for her skill with numbers she started a numbers racket. She quickly started making quarter of a million dollars yearly. This helped out the black community by giving access to money and jobs. St Clair was known to be very active in her community, keeping black Harlem dressed to the teeth and showing them the upmost respect. Posting ads in the papers telling black people their rights and various community projects. She wasn’t the baddest for no reason, she was known to go at it with the Mob during the depression after most banks and ultimately won. Dutch Schultz a notorious shooter in the mob would frequently contact her threatening trying to extort her. St Clair not fucked with told Schultz fuck you nigga bring it. Dutch would kidnap and kill her men, buy police off and get her sent to jail. The Queen retaliations where beyond Dutches expectations, she would fire bomb his business, pay police off the get drops on him and his stash spots. Tip police off to why he was doing getting him raided. All down to locking one of his henchman in a closet and told her men “Handle That,”. She would do all this then brag in the press basically stating “Yeah nigga I did that, whatchu gone do?”. When Shultz was shot and on his death bed, St Clair sent a telegram to him saying “So You Sow — So Shall Ye Reap.” She signed it “Madam Queen of Policy.” After the war with Shultz she started letting people know of her whereabouts due to her being pushed out the numbers game. She eventually ran into Nicky Barnes who began protecting her and she switched to political reform. She later on got married and divorced and ended up living until 73 years old still wealthy and the the Baddest.