Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords / Edition 2

Overview

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 corporations and dedicated to social, economic, and political development. The gang�s violent neighborhood was transformed into Head Start�s most improved block where the crime rate decreased as did the number of gang-related killings.