Saw this issue of Don Diva in the newspaper store and had to pick it up as additional help in my previous post as to learning the difference between what was real and what was fantasy in the movie American Gangster starring Denzel Washington. An interview with Bumpy Johnson's 93-year-old widow Mayme Johnson who has written a new book Harlem Godfather: The Rap On My Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson.
~LT
The cover story begins:
"The Original American Gangster
Words By Karen E. Quinones Miller
'Want to talk about gangsters? Well, let's really talk about gangsters. Al Capone may have ruled Chicago, Lucky Luciano may have run most of New York City. But from the 1930s to the late 1960s, when it came to Harlem, the undisputed king of the underworld was the legendary gangster, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson.
He Was An Old-Fashioned Gentleman. He Was A Pimp. A Philanthropist, And A Thief, A Scholar, A Thug."
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