QUEENIE: GODMOTHER OF HARLEM
AURELIE LEVY // ELIZABETH COLOMBA
Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Stephanie Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and headed for the United States, eager to make a new life for
herself. In New York she found success, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem’s mafia and a fierce
defender of the Black community.
A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth and compassion to the struggling masses of Harlem, giving loans and paying debts to those around her. But with Prohibition ending, and under threat by Italian
mobsters seeking to take control of her operation, she launched a merciless war to save her territory and her skin.
-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF HARRY J. ABRAMS
