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The Numbers Racket: How Harlem's Illegal Lottery Became America's Legal One | Sleep Story with Rain Sounds
Before the state lottery ticket in your grandmother's purse, there was a folded slip of paper and a Harlem street corner. Drift off tonight to the true story of the numbers racket: the illegal lottery that ran on nickels, dimes, and unshakable hope, and the extraordinary people who built it into a multimillion dollar empire. Meet Stephanie St. Clair, the French-speaking immigrant known across Harlem as "Queenie," who fought Prohibition-era police corruption in the pages of the newspaper and ruled her territory with a queen's confidence. Meet Dutch Schultz, the ruthless bootlegger who…
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