Born October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson would go on notoriety as an enforcer and kingpin in Harlem’s underworld. At an early age his older brother Willie was sent from South Carolina after he was said to have killed a White man. Johnson himself would be sent to Harlem in 1919 to […]

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