When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble finding steady work. So, Fannie found a way to take care of her family. She started small, but built a robust and lucrative operation… a business that a lot of people knew about but no one talked about.
Bridgett Davis’ book is <a href="https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/bridgett-m-davis/the-world-according-to-fannie-davis/9780316558716/">The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers</a>.
This episode was originally released in 2019.
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