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The Blackstone Rangers

Richard T. Sale

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Description:A Reporter's Account of Time Spent with Blackstone Rangers in Chicago's South Side. "'Nowhere in the history of this country has there been a group of young black men like us, organized with the kind of discipline we have, the kind of organization. Because that's what we are: an organization. We ain't no gang.' Thus, Joel Hampton, the older brother of Freddy Hampton, described the largest ghetto street gang in the United States, the Blackstone Rangers. From a nine-member street gang founded in 1959, then called the Blackstone Raiders, the Blackstone Rangers had grown in nine years to a membership of over 4500, and had come to control the entire South Side of Chicago. In 1968 a young reporter from a major magazine met Joel Hampton in Resurrection City. In a Washington, D.C., bar, Hampton wrote the reporter a safe-conduct on a napkin, and two weeks later the reporter took it out to Chicago and went down to the South Side. This book records what he saw and heard. The colorful, brash, strong and moving personalities of the Stone leaders themselves. But, more important, it documents how the organization came to attain its immense size and powerful influence among young black people of Chicago. How extortion squads prey on the merchants of the South Side, the Blackstone intelligence system, how assassinations are executed, how internal discipline is maintained: all these things emerge, told in the words of the Stones themselves. And what the black ghetto looks like to these young black men, what they think of life, of their lives. For years the Gang Intelligence Unit of the Chicago Police Department has attempted to infiltrate and break up the Blackstone Rangers. This book clearly describes many of the reasons why the attempt by the Chicago police has failed."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Blackstone Rangers. To get started finding The Blackstone Rangers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A Reporter's Account of Time Spent with Blackstone Rangers in Chicago's South Side. "'Nowhere in the history of this country has there been a group of young black men like us, organized with the kind of discipline we have, the kind of organization. Because that's what we are: an organization. We ain't no gang.' Thus, Joel Hampton, the older brother of Freddy Hampton, described the largest ghetto street gang in the United States, the Blackstone Rangers. From a nine-member street gang founded in 1959, then called the Blackstone Raiders, the Blackstone Rangers had grown in nine years to a membership of over 4500, and had come to control the entire South Side of Chicago. In 1968 a young reporter from a major magazine met Joel Hampton in Resurrection City. In a Washington, D.C., bar, Hampton wrote the reporter a safe-conduct on a napkin, and two weeks later the reporter took it out to Chicago and went down to the South Side. This book records what he saw and heard. The colorful, brash, strong and moving personalities of the Stone leaders themselves. But, more important, it documents how the organization came to attain its immense size and powerful influence among young black people of Chicago. How extortion squads prey on the merchants of the South Side, the Blackstone intelligence system, how assassinations are executed, how internal discipline is maintained: all these things emerge, told in the words of the Stones themselves. And what the black ghetto looks like to these young black men, what they think of life, of their lives. For years the Gang Intelligence Unit of the Chicago Police Department has attempted to infiltrate and break up the Blackstone Rangers. This book clearly describes many of the reasons why the attempt by the Chicago police has failed."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Blackstone Rangers. To get started finding The Blackstone Rangers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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