When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City

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Dr. Felicia George explains how number lotteries in the city’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods in the 20th century, although illegal and rife with exploitation, also raised some Black Detroiters out of poverty and created an important social support in a community stressed by racial discrimination and job insecurity.

Dr. George is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Wayne State University and the author of When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City.

Episode Credits
Interviewee: Felicia George
Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English
Music: Bart Bealmear

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