Sue was the pseudonym of an African-American saloonkeeper and underworld figure whose Grand Street dive bar was destroyed during the New York Draft Riots in 1863. After she had been attacked and "frightfully beaten" by a group of women from the Five Points, her liquor was confiscated and distributed amongst the rioters around Thompson Street's Arch Blo…
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