Tag: Mayme Hatcher Johnson Net Wort

Mayme Hatcher Johnson is one of those historical figures whose name is often searched for through someone else. In her case, that person was Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, the notorious Harlem crime boss whose life has inspired films, documentaries and the television series Godfather of Harlem. That connection explains much of the curiosity around Mayme Hatcher Johnson net worth. But it also creates a problem: the internet contains numerous conflicting financial claims about her, including specific fortunes that have little or no documented evidence behind them. The more reliable historical record tells a different story. Mayme Hatcher Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1914, moved to New York in the late 1930s, worked in Harlem, married Bumpy Johnson in 1948 and remained connected to...