A decade and a half later, in early May 1940, Marvel Cooke, a reporter for the Amsterdam News, walked the streets of Black Metropolis investigating what her
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I'm still waiting to read the headline, "Psychic Wins Lottery." Not shocked that so many of the poor, uneducated, jobless folks who got taken in by the numbers racket would fork over an additional $20 each (on average...I did the math) to get even further taken by the fortune teller schemes. Then again... I dunno if I can put much credence in a book about gambling in Harlem during the early 20th Century being written by 4 Australian white guys.
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