Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police start their search for the men with only a few leads: one thief is 5 ft. 10 in. tall, gray-haired, and slightly overweight. Another is 25-years-old and wore a brown cloth coat. Some of the gang live in the South Shore area...
...With a mother whose civil service job provides just enough money to send him across town to school and out of the city during the summer, Steve must struggle to gain acceptance in the ghetto, an acceptance that comes only after a vicious blood-letting fight with a neighborhood gang leader. Success in the street leads to success in the bedroom as he is initiated into sex by a local whore as laurels for his victory...
FOLLOWING HIS SEXUAL initiation, Steves passes his early teenage years in a street gang, his later teens in the Navy and his early twenties in a flirtation with the American dream. Going heavily into debt to buy several slum properties, he becomes a slum lord par excellance, carries a brief case, subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, and even runs a whore house on the side. But when the violence and degradation becomes overwhelming, he locks the door to the whore house, leaves everything behind, and heads for the ultimate destination of America's nomadic society: California...
...SURPRISING FEATURE of the Panther case was not that the police had perpetrated such a slaughter. Edward V. Hanrahan (Harvard Law, '48), then State's Attorney for Cook County, had declared war on Chicago street gangs soon after he was elected in 1968. The Black P. Stone Nation on the South Side was the largest. It had several thousand members, and was turning from traditional gang activities to organizing for political and economic action. The group posed a threat to Mayor Daley's control of ghetto votes and became a prime target for Daley's machine. The Black Panthers, despite...
...throughout the political system." Says Fred Hand Sr., a Georgia farmer and banker who was speaker of the Georgia house for eight years: "Anyone who has run a political campaign on a state level knows that if everything he did were uncovered he could be put on a chain gang. I don't care...