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A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords
by
David Dawley
An instructive and relevant look at an explosive period in urban history! This savagely moving autobiography of a violent street gang covers its heyday in the 1960s when it had perhaps ten thousand members in at least twenty-six branches on Chicago's West Side. It is the story of a street gang that became a community organization, supported by private foundations and corpo
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Paperback
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205 pages
Published
March 1st 1992
by Waveland Press
(first published 1973)
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Great story, shows what a community of written-off people can accomplish when they make up their minds to change. Also shows how hard it can be, not just because of the situation they're in, but because of the additional barriers people put on them because of racism and narrow-mindedness. The story was a bit meandering, but told the story successfully.
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