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Gangs in Humboldt Park originated in the 1950s, and quickly cascaded across nearly all racial groups in the area over the proceeding years as gang related violence also increased, with a surge in the late 1970s. [3] By the late 1980s/early 1990s, approximately 49 of the 139 gangs active in Chicago operated out of the 14th district, Humboldt ...
The Four Corner Hustlers (4CH) is an African American street gang founded in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago in the 1960s by Walter Wheat and Freddy Gauge. [1] The Four Corner Hustlers at first were a single gang that would wear the colors black and brown.
African-American gangs Ragen's Colts was a chiefly Irish street gang which dominated the Chicago underworld during the early twentieth century. By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the gang became part of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone .
In 1957, the Vice Lords gang was founded by several African American youths originally from the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. [8] These youths met while incarcerated in the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles (also known as the St. Charles Juvenile Correctional Facility).
Tyrone Muhammad, 53, a former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples who did 20 years in state prison, now runs a violence prevention program in Chicago’s inner city.
In 1969, Larry Hoover, the leader of the rival gang Gangster Disciples, agreed to a merger with Barksdale to create a unified gang called the "Black Gangster Disciples Nation." Soon after the alliance was formed, Larry Hoover and one member were charged and convicted for the murder of another member, and both received a life sentence in prison.
Graffiti piece by the defunct 49th & Honore set of the Gangster Disciple Nation on West 50th Street and South Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL. Chicago is considered the most gang-occupied city in the United States, with 150,000 gang-affiliated tenants, [1] representing more than 100 gangs. [2] Gang warfare and retaliation are common in Chicago.
It includes gangsters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American gangsters" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.