http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com News and analysis of the web site 'Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930' Wed, 08 May 2013 14:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/playing-the-numbers-the-book/learn-more-about-numbers/bankers-kings-and-queens/#comment-412 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:12:50 +0000 http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=541#comment-412 Why is it that history, always portrayed Black folk as “bumbling baffoons, the numbers racket in Harlem, was always shown to be caucasian run. The reality was that white folk saw, after prohibition, they needed to diversify, and they assumed they could intimidate and “muscle in” on the underground business of Harlem!

]]> http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/playing-the-numbers-the-book/learn-more-about-numbers/bankers-kings-and-queens/#comment-411 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:50:32 +0000 http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=541#comment-411 [...] in later years, as did the Lincoln Giants, and the Cuban Stars, the team managed by numbers banker Alex Pompez.  Other black teams also played at Ebbets Field, and at Yankee Stadium, the major league stadium [...]

]]> http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/playing-the-numbers-the-book/learn-more-about-numbers/bankers-kings-and-queens/#comment-353 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:20:16 +0000 http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=541#comment-353 [...] A platoon of mounted police, followed by a car containing James Blondy Brown, grand marshal, and Casper Holstein, honorary chairman of the local entertaining committee, led the parade, followed by the hosts, the [...]

]]> http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/playing-the-numbers-the-book/learn-more-about-numbers/bankers-kings-and-queens/#comment-351 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:29:24 +0000 http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=541#comment-351 [...] UNIA almost lost the hall in early 1927, having been forced to mortgage it, until numbers king Casper Holstein stepped in.  However, he sold it at the end of the year, and by 1930 apartments occupied part of [...]

]]> http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/playing-the-numbers-the-book/learn-more-about-numbers/bankers-kings-and-queens/#comment-135 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:10:26 +0000 http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=541#comment-135 [...] a “hometown” shop the illegal trade Morris witnessed was playing the numbers, with a runner arriving to collect bets from operators and customers.  As more numbers betting [...]

]]> http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/playing-the-numbers-the-book/learn-more-about-numbers/bankers-kings-and-queens/#comment-96 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:31:10 +0000 http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=541#comment-96 [...] Street, catering to about 2000 members.  Two blocks south, Monarch Lodge, in which numbers banker Casper Holstein played a leading role, had its rooms on 137th Street.  Imperial Lodge had a large dance hall as [...]

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