#madamestclair #madamequeen #stephaniestclair #harlem #guadeloupe🇬🇵 The Madame Queen came to the US July 13, 2011. The hardships that she faced before coming to the US & what happened once she got here kind of gives us an idea as to why she didn't take kindly to being taken advantage of or pushed around. The assaults she suffered definitely hardened her. One boyfriend tried to turn her into a prostitute which got him a fork in his eye. Another boyfriend who was mad that she wanted to cut him out of her drug business attempted to strangle her, he ended up dead behind a cracked skull. She then went on to invest 10 grand into her own lottery game which resulted in her becoming Madame St. Clair. The Madame was a gangster & community activist. Through her policy banking she allowed black people opportunities that the system denied them. They were denied loans, they provided a way. They denied investing opportunities, she provided a way. They denied the people the means to find out about their legal rights, she made it known and available to them by way of the ads that she regularly took out. She advocated for their voting rights also & addressed police brutality. She wasn't afraid, the abuse she had suffered in her younger years had taken that fear away. No white or black man made her cower. The newspaper ads were also an insurance policy just in case if the corrupt police or Mafia tried to take her out. Aside from informing the people, her ads publicly let everyone know where she was & what she was doing, so everyone had a record of it. All of this was leading up to her getting out of the limelight. After her war with Dutch Schultz, the Madame Queen fell back and let her enforcer Bumpy Johnson take the lead. No movie as of yet as really touched upon how the Queen really went to war with Dutch, they've usually made it seem as if Dutch's crew came & did what they wanted. None have shown that she put a hit out on him and that's why Bumpy and others from the crew went so hard at the Schultz gang. More on that later. In the 2nd pic she's seated with her husband Sufi Abdul Hamid. The third pic is when Cicely Tyson played her in the 1997 film Hoodlum. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Fw01thwe-/?igshid=1up2qw1blfun5