Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars by Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Shane White, Stephen Garton

Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars

Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Shane White, Stephen Garton

320 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
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The phrase "Harlem in the 1920s" evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of "num...

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