The Bumpy Johnson Chapters is a short documentary exploring the rise of a Harlem gangster Ellsworth Johnson and his relationship to numbers banker Madame Stephanie St. Clair and how he protected her from the wrath of vicious mobster Dutch Schultz.
Ellsworth was born in 1905 in Charleston, South Carolina. When he was 10 years old his parents sent him to live with his sister in Harlem.
Between 1930 and 1968 he was the most feared and revered underworld figure in Harlem. So how did he gain his fearsome reputation?
Watch this short documentary to learn more about the legendary gangster and the movers and shakers of Harlem during this period.