{"product_id":"dangerous-black-and-notorious-woody-clermont-9798999328199","title":"Dangerous, Black and Notorious: America's First Self Made Female Millionaire","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Ellen Pleasant's story is one of the most extraordinary-and overlooked-in American history. Born in the early nineteenth century, she rose from obscurity to become a millionaire entrepreneur, an abolitionist mastermind, and the woman history now calls the \u003ci\u003eMother of Civil Rights in California\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the gold-dusted streets of San Francisco, Pleasant built an empire of laundries, boarding houses, and real estate, transforming domestic labor into financial power. But her wealth was never just for herself. She sheltered fugitives, funded escape routes, sued streetcar companies for segregation, and, by her own account, gave John Brown tens of thousands of dollars to strike at the heart of slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces her journey through triumph and betrayal-her bold lawsuits, her entanglement in the sensational Sharon v. Sharon trial, her stewardship of the Bell mansion, and the scandals that sought to tarnish her name. It also follows the legend beyond her lifetime: the parks, plaques, art, literature, and films that keep her memory alive, and the blueprint she left for later generations of civil rights activists, entrepreneurs, and community builders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Ellen Pleasant did not wait for permission to rise-she built her own Black Wall Street before the name ever existed. Her legacy is wealth as resistance, law as weapon, audacity as survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Black history, women's history, and true stories of resistance, this is the definitive narrative of a woman who truly is legend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Woody Clermont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798999328199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Woody Clermont Book Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Woody Clermont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47612045820159,"sku":"9798999328199","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a0998abf-cc7a-447e-a97e-9aa2d7899611.jpg?v=1764517808","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dangerous-black-and-notorious-woody-clermont-9798999328199","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}