When Detroit played the numbers : gambling's history and cultural impact on the Motor City / Felicia B. George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Felicia B., author.

Contributor:

Project Muse

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gambling--Michigan--Detroit--History.

Gambling.

Detroit (Mich.)--Social life and customs--History.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2024]

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. First There Was the Lottery

2. Policy Playing Comes to Detroit

3. John Roxborough: Hope Dealer and Numbers King

4. 312 Plays for Playing the Numbers in Detroit

5. The White Invasion

6. Detroit Numbers to the Rescue!

7. Numbers Provides the American Dream

8. You Have to Pay to Play

9. Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned

10. Detroit's Hope Dealers Go on Trial

11. Fuller Hit's Story

12. The Aftermath

13. A New Era in the Numbers Racket

14. The Destruction of Black Numbers and Neighborhoods

15. Big Ed and Detroit's Italian Mafia

16. What about the Women?: Fannie Davis, a Detroit Numbers Queen

17. The State of Michigan: The Legal Numbers Man

18. Playing the Numbers in the Plant

19. Finis

Notes

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: George, Felicia B. When Detroit Played the Numbers

ISBN:

9780814350782

081435078X

Publisher Number:

40032241693

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.