The World of Stephanie St. Clair - An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in Early Twentieth Century Harlem

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.