Chi-Town Gangster

Chi-Town Gangster
Author: Champagne Powell
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

This story extends from the uniqueness of Black Chicago, Illinois, USA, in comparison to any other city in America. This prolific difference includes Black Chicago teenager's unique Gouster style of clothing announced by singer David Bowie during the 1960s. More especially, it includes the historical ability for Black teenager's exhibition in phenomenal organizational skills that included hundreds of thousands. Most importantly, this story describes the uniqueness of Chicago, Illinois, as the most segregated city in the United States. In 1885, a state law against discrimination in public places was initiated but was rarely enforced. While not yet confined to the city's nascent ghettos, Blacks generally found housing available only within emerging enclaves. Much of Martin Luther King Jr.'s integration efforts focused on the Deep South, but in 1966, King focused his energies on Chicago, known then as one of the most segregated cities in the country. This unique period of teenage Chicago history is generally unknown to the world and may become extinct in the upcoming years as its participants are now in their early seventies. Inspired by true events, this is where our story begins. In 1965, this story follows a fifteen-year-old Charles Powers, called CP, who aspired to become a Hollywood actor/singer. After the murder of his best friend by the huge Disciple street gang, CP was unexpectedly led into the hierarchy of a near three hundred-member street gang called the Satan Lovers. In 1969, this street organization joined the highly publicized Black P. Stone Nation in its war with the Disciple Nation. In 1970, at age twenty, CP became leader of the now nearly two-thousand-member Black P. Stone Nation faction. In 1964, as housing slowly opened for Black families moving westward, Disciple members and affiliates added themselves to the neighborhood of West Englewood. A small street gang known to law enforcement as the Satan Lovers established several years prior and other youth in the area experienced a takeover buildup by encroaching Disciple factions. Increasing Disciple harassment, threats, and shootings stimulated local teens to weaponize and join the Satan Lovers in a battle to maintain control of their area. Against this backdrop of Englewood, the White Flight occurred in 1964. There included a generational Italian Mafia connected teenage street gang, concerned with the approaching decimation of the Ashland Boulevard racial dividing line. They also experienced the merging of a forced maturity in all White and Black Englewood teens who are today in their seventies. Segregation and gang violence hovered over West Englewood. This was a perfect storm of racial tension and a highly outnumbered and surrounded Satan Lovers, which sidetracked teenage career goals and neighborhood peace. A must-read of every book club in the UK--What is the big attraction? Chi Town Gangster is most unique as its specifics experienced by those who lived the history are unavailable elsewhere and stem from true events uniquely attached to only one American city. UNTOLD CHICAGO HISTORY .

Chi-Town

Chi-Town
Author: William E. Wilson
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480898740

Alfonso Lewis goes by the name of “Sunshine.” After serving twelve years in Illinois State Prison on drug related charges, he is released and returns to the south side of Chicago to pick up where he left off. White Chocolate, Sunshine’s partner in the illicit drug trade, kept things operating while Sunshine was away, but now, it’s back to business as usual. While on a trip to the Grand Caymans, Sunshine and White Chocolate meet Leroy and Shirley Smith. The unassuming Smiths just happen to be known transporters who move drugs from Columbia to the United States. Things are looking up—until authorities search the Smiths’ hotel and find an illegal stash of drugs. The Smiths are arrested, and Sunshine and White Chocolate’s lives are forever altered. Chi-Town is a gritty tale of power, corruption, and suspense driven by a compelling sense of realism. Chicago has been a place of unrest and turmoil since its inception. Now, take a fictionalized look into its cruel lawlessness through the eyes of a criminal fighting to make his way.

They Let a Gangster Go

They Let a Gangster Go
Author: Don Farilla
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1662442025

They Let a Gangster Go is the to-be-continued of True Gangsters Don't Fold. It's about a young man that grew up in the ruthless streets of Chicago. He survived and put together a team of hard-core gangsters that would run through fire if need be. They made millions of dollars and did whatever they had to do to get it. He is a businessman by nature with ideas that would make it out the nefarious streets of Englewood. The federal government didn't like that idea so they investigated the don until they were able to put together a case that would take him and his organization down. But little did they know #TrueGangstersDontFold, and eventually, #TheyLetAGangsterGo. Don Farilla took the weight and pressure off a lot of families that would have lost the breadwinners of their household. He ended up in a one-man conspiracy with his altered egos.

Chi-Town Gangster

Chi-Town Gangster
Author: Champagne Powell
Publisher: Page Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

This story extends from the uniqueness of Black Chicago, Illinois, USA, in comparison to any other city in America. This prolific difference includes Black Chicago teenager's unique Gouster style of clothing announced by singer David Bowie during the 1960s. More especially, it includes the historical ability for Black teenager's exhibition in phenomenal organizational skills that included hundreds of thousands. Most importantly, this story describes the uniqueness of Chicago, Illinois, as the most segregated city in the United States. In 1885, a state law against discrimination in public places was initiated but was rarely enforced. While not yet confined to the city's nascent ghettos, Blacks generally found housing available only within emerging enclaves. Much of Martin Luther King Jr.'s integration efforts focused on the Deep South, but in 1966, King focused his energies on Chicago, known then as one of the most segregated cities in the country. This unique period of teenage Chicago history is generally unknown to the world and may become extinct in the upcoming years as its participants are now in their early seventies. Inspired by true events, this is where our story begins. In 1965, this story follows a fifteen-year-old Charles Powers, called CP, who aspired to become a Hollywood actor/singer. After the murder of his best friend by the huge Disciple street gang, CP was unexpectedly led into the hierarchy of a near three hundred-member street gang called the Satan Lovers. In 1969, this street organization joined the highly publicized Black P. Stone Nation in its war with the Disciple Nation. In 1970, at age twenty, CP became leader of the now nearly two-thousand-member Black P. Stone Nation faction. In 1964, as housing slowly opened for Black families moving westward, Disciple members and affiliates added themselves to the neighborhood of West Englewood. A small street gang known to law enforcement as the Satan Lovers established several years prior and other youth in the area experienced a takeover buildup by encroaching Disciple factions. Increasing Disciple harassment, threats, and shootings stimulated local teens to weaponize and join the Satan Lovers in a battle to maintain control of their area. Against this backdrop of Englewood, the White Flight occurred in 1964. There included a generational Italian Mafia connected teenage street gang, concerned with the approaching decimation of the Ashland Boulevard racial dividing line. They also experienced the merging of a forced maturity in all White and Black Englewood teens who are today in their seventies. Segregation and gang violence hovered over West Englewood. This was a perfect storm of racial tension and a highly outnumbered and surrounded Satan Lovers, which sidetracked teenage career goals and neighborhood peace. A must-read of every book club in the UK--What is the big attraction? Chi Town Gangster is most unique as its specifics experienced by those who lived the history are unavailable elsewhere and stem from true events uniquely attached to only one American city. UNTOLD CHICAGO HISTORY .

Haters Made Me Greater

Haters Made Me Greater
Author: Twana M. Taylor
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1796027731

My book is based on trials, tribulation, tests. Live your life, take chances, be different, observe more hold on to hope, trust in God all day. I’m so glad trouble doesn’t last always. Don’t stay stressed, depressed; you’re blessed to be impress. Life is too short for sorrow—you may be here today and not promise tomorrow. I am no longer for the good in people. I search for the real, because while good dress in fake, delete. Now I’m stirring things up with a litter, bitter, sweet spiritually. One thing is certain in my life. May not my God will never get tired of loving me. True love knows no color and never dies. A woman with a beautiful body is good—awoman for a night. A woman with a beautiful mind is wonderful, shall humble yourself. People that will inspire you being you no matter what. Some will adore you, and some will hate everything about you. I’m not where I such be, but where I’m going to be. Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. I ask myself, Is it me? Some people because when God is family, he will cut you off like an infection—he cutting out and giving you a new life.

Natural Born Gangster

Natural Born Gangster
Author: C. J. H. MOORE
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 168456929X

Chris Bell was born on the West Side of Chicago and attended Catholic elementary school on the South Side. He was an unusual and gifted star child who was beyond his mother's understanding. His gang activities kept him out of the regular sequential leap from grade to grade. He joined his first martial arts gang, GGWB (Good Guys Wear Black), just after kindergarten, because he was being bullied everyday by an older kid. He earned his high school diploma by challenging the GED at his mother's behest, after reading books on math, language arts, classics, and Aesop's Fables, which he loved the most, in local libraries day and night, well before his eighteenth birthday, and earned the title "the richest man in the world" by working and fighting in the underground. In his youth, he consolidated the dangerous Black Disciples and Vice Lord gangs of Chicago and all their subdivisions to complete his dream in building another Black Wall Street on the West Side. After he met Madi, Derek Jenkins, and the Stepfather, he moved closer to his dreams. When the Shadow of Knights confiscated sixty tons of drugs and guns off the Chicago streets and placed them on the FBI's doorstep, the ghetto ninjas were a marked group.

West Side Baby!

West Side Baby!
Author: Steven J. Simmons
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1665514671

Before Rodney King, There was Me. When One lies unto another. With the current increase of blacks being murdered by cops across the country and there seemingly being no revise to the method by which police practices are used when arresting blacks.. Here in this book you Will find an official deposition that expose and uncovers the true lies and how they sound when questions are directed to an officer concerning a fabricated police report.

Al Capone's Beer Wars

Al Capone's Beer Wars
Author: John J. Binder
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1633882853

"Based on 25 years of research using all available sources, this is the definitive history of organized crime in Chicago through the end of the Prohibition Era"--

Skinheads

Skinheads
Author: Tiffini Travis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313359547

This book provides a fascinating examination of one of the most notorious countercultures in the United States. Skinheads: A Guide to An American Subculture is an insider's look at the history of skinheads in the United States, from their emergence from the U.S. hardcore underground in the 1980s in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, to the current scene that thrives in many major metropolitan areas today. What makes this revelatory book so compelling is its one-of-a-kind view of skinhead culture from the inside out. Coauthor Perry Hardy is a skinhead, bass player for the band, The Templars, and veteran member of the American skinhead scene since the onset of the movement. Based on his experiences, plus interviews with dozens of skinheads of all kinds, Skinheads draws back the curtain to reveal a world that more often is simply a haven for those disaffected from society, rather than a subculture of hatred or violence.

Trying to Make It

Trying to Make It
Author: Rajeev V. Gundur
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501764489

Trying to Make It is R. V. Gundur's journey from the US-Mexico border to America's heartland, from America's prisons to its streets, in search of the true story of the drug trade and the people who participate in it. The book begins in the Paso del Norte area, encompassing the sister cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, which has been in the public eye as calls for securing the border persist. From there, it moves on to Phoenix, which was infamously associated with the drug trade through a series of kidnappings. Finally, the book goes on to Chicago, which has been a lightning rod of criticism for its gangs and violence. Gundur highlights the similarities and differences that exist in the American drug trade within the three sites and how they relate to current drug trade narratives in the US. At each stop, the reader is transported to the city's historical and contemporary contexts of the drug trade and introduced to the individuals who have lived them. Drug retailers, street and prison gang members, wholesalers, and the law enforcement personnel who try to stop them offer readers a comprehensive look at how various illicit enterprises work together to supply the drugs that American users demand. Most importantly, through a combination of macro- and microlevel vantage points, and comparative analysis of three key sites in illicit drug operations, the stories in Trying to Make It remind us that the people involved in the drug trade, for the most part, do not deserve vilification. Far from being a seemingly uniform, widespread threat or an unlimited array of bogeymen and women, they are ordinary people, living ordinary lives, just trying to make it.