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[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 ]
Though the television show American Bandstand helped to "sanitize" the negative image of greasers in the 1960s and 1970s, sexual promiscuity was still seen as a key component of the modern character. [21] By the mid-1970s, the greaser image had become a quintessential part of 1950s nostalgia and cultural revival. [22]
By the early 1970s, the skinhead subculture started to fade from popular culture, and some of the original skins dropped into new categories, such as the suedeheads (defined by the ability to manipulate one's hair with a comb), smoothies (often with shoulder-length hairstyles), and bootboys (with mod-length hair; associated with gangs and ...
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.
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.
The rockers' look and attitude influenced pop groups in the 1960s, such as The Beatles, [9] as well as hard rock and punk rock bands and fans in the late 1970s. The look of the ton-up boy and rocker was accurately portrayed in the 1964 film The Leather Boys .
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 ...
In his 1972 study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, [7] he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. [9] He concedes that mods and rockers had some fights in the mid-1960s, but argues that they were no different from the evening brawls that occurred between youths throughout the 1950s and early 1960s at seaside resorts and ...