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The documentary notes that children who grow up to join gangs often face a severe deficit of opportunities and highlights that the American Dream appears out of reach for the youth of South Central. Crips and Bloods: Made in America notes that violence between the two gangs has taken more than 15,000 lives to date. [13]
[31] [32] [33] The practice of allying local street gangs together into federated alliances began during the 1960s and expanded rapidly across the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. [34] Out of the prison system of Illinois came two gang alliances by the late 1970s, the Folk Nation and the People Nation . [ 34 ]
Black gang activity declined in the years following with a turn towards political advocacy. [7] But by the late 1960s, new street gangs emerged as Black consciousness fell away with political leadership. Immature teens without leadership soon became involved in criminal activity and by 1972 one of the first gang murders of the time took place.
Gang involvement, particularly among youth, has carried on successively down generations, with the 1970s through early 1990s marking an apex of drug dealing and violent crime in Humboldt Park, largely stemming from gang activity. [7] [8] [4] Gentrification in Humboldt Park, particularly on the east side of the neighborhood, began in the 1990s.
Why We Bang starts by depicting a short history of African-American organizations and communities during the 1960s and 1970s such as the Black Panthers.It is then suggested that these organizations were "infiltrated by the CIA", eventually leading to the division of the then more unified African-American community, and again leading to the establishment of new violent street gangs.
In Shamari’s neighborhood, kids join gangs when they’re as young as 9 or 10, sometimes carrying guns to elementary school, said Tonyia “Nina” Carter, a violence interrupter who knew ...
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (born August 8, 1948) is a political activist and the founder of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. [1] [2] Started in September 23, 1968, it was most active in the late 1960s and 1970s.