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The World According To Fannie Davis Bridgett M Davis

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The World According To Fannie Davis Bridgett M Davis
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 20.5 MB
Author: Bridgett M. Davis
ISBN: 9780316558716, 0316558710
Language: English
Year: 2019

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The World According To Fannie Davis Bridgett M Davis by Bridgett M. Davis 9780316558716, 0316558710 instant download after payment.

Set against the dramatic backdrop of 1960s and 70s Detroit, novelist Bridgett M. Davis's stirring memoir tells how her ingenious mother used Detroit's illegal lottery to support her family


In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis' mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city using her wit, style, guts, and even gun. She ran her numbers business for 34 years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving,...

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