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Bridgett Davis

This person writes about a beloved parent who ran a betting business based on numbers in Detroit for decades.

Fannie Drumwright Davis Robinson

This Black American built a thriving business, while struggling financially at times, based on illegal numbers betting.

John Thomas Matthew Davis (John T.)

This person worked for a time at blue collar jobs in Detroit auto manufacturing, but this person had poor health and was emotionally devastated by a divorce.

Rita

This person is a main person's older sibling, and is a nurturing influence on the main person. This person helps a beloved parent through a terminal illness.

Florence

This person offers a great deal of information to the writer about the Numbers business, and this person is the only sibling of the subject of the book who is alive to give information to the writer at the time the writer starts working on...

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