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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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from mjspear
A daughter's loving biography of her mother, a mother who happened to be a numbers runner in 1960s and 1970s in Detroit. Her business afforded them a middle class lifestyle but was always in danger of being revealed since it was illegal. There are nuggets of empowerment: Fannie kept her own bank ...
from jonerthon
The author recounts her childhood with a comfortable middle-class lifestyle that came from a very unconventional source: her mother ran a cottage betting business that used results from horse races as the "numbers" that customers could bet on. These games were once a common hobby of black communi...
from LyndaInOregon
This combination memoir of a woman growing up in 1960s Detroit, and biography of her mother, who supported the family by running a numbers operation out of the family home, suffers badly from its dual focus. Fannie's story alone would have been utterly compelling -- how a young wife and mother tr...
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