Black P Stones
In the year 1959 almost 90% of the white population had abandoned Woodlawn leaving extreme blight and abandonment of businesses and properties. Black street gangs …
Gangs
14th Street Clovers
The story of the Clovers dates back to the year 1949 in the Maxwell Street Market section of the Near West Side neighborhood. Black southerners …
Imperial Chaplins
Black southerners had been migrating to the Near West Side for decades before the 1940s but migration picked up in the early 1940s and blacks …