Introduction

The topic I chose for this project came from the inspiration of a movie I recently saw. It opened my eyes to the fact that gangs have been around for much longer than I thought. As shown in the title, “No Bandana’s No Tommy Gun’s” tells that there are no Crips no Bloods no Corleone’s. The Italian mobs have been given large recognition of who they were and what they did in the 20th century. The Crips, Bloods, LKD all infamous, all known by name. But who came before that? Fresh immigrants occupying large cities coming with nothing in their pockets and just their fellow countrymen to turn to. These people were cut throat, and poor living a pretty awful time in American history. The draft for the civil war, and low employment ratings left the Cities of America into a rage which resulted in unpreventable crime and murder rates. With crime and murder rates came gangs. So who were these people? What did they do? And why have their names been lost in the history books? These questions will be answered through this blog.