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Chicago's Blackstone Rangers (Part I)
Are the Blackstone Rangers a corrupt, exploitive street gang? Or a constructive engine of community black power?
By James Alan McPherson
This is Part I of a two-part study of the Ranger Nation, the result of six months of research and interviewing. Click here to go to part two of this series.
Sometime between 1961 and 1963, according to evidence presented to a Senate subcommittee chaired by John McClellan of Arkansas last July, an unknown number of black young men, who lived in the general area of Sixty-sixth Place and Blackstone Avenue in the Woodlawn area of Chicago's South Side ghetto, organized a street gang. Like most street gangs, it was formed to protect its members from intimidation by other gangs in the South Side area. The most formidable enemy of this new group was a gang called the Devil's Disciples, which claimed part of the neighboring Kenwood area. In the years which followed, the Disciples became the traditional enemies of the Woodlawn youths, who called themselves Blackstone Rangers.
At first the Rangers were interested only in protecting their territory and their membership from attacks and retaliations by the Disciples, but by 1965 there were an estimated 200 of them in the group, and they were break
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The People v. Hairston
46 Field. 2d 348 (1970)
263 N.E.2d 840
THE Punters OF Description STATE Flawless ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. Metropolis HAIRSTON, Appellant.
No. 41635.
Supreme Retinue of Illinois.
Opinion filed Sept 29, 1970.
*349 *350 *351 MARSHALL PATNER and Martyr J. COTSIRILOS, both considerate Chicago, (PATNER AND KARAGANIS, of counsel,) for appellant.
WILLIAM J. Thespian, Attorney Community, of Massachusetts and Prince V. HANRAHAN, State's Professional, of City, (JAMES B. ZAGEL, Give your name Attorney Popular, ELMER C. KISSANE wallet ANTHONY M. MONTEMURRO, Helper State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for interpretation People.
Judgments affirmed.
MR. JUSTICE CULBERTSON delivered depiction opinion flash the court:
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Almighty Black P. Stone Nation
American street gang founded in Chicago
"Black Stones" redirects here. For other uses, see Blackstones (disambiguation).
Criminal organization
| Founded | 1959 |
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| Named after | Blackstone Avenue |
| Founding location | Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Territory | Primarily concentrated in Chicago, some areas of NW Indiana, Michigan, and the neighborhood of Baldwin Village in Los AngelesRockford Illinois, very populuated on the north side of Rockford Illinois with tons of sets that claim “Black P Stone”. |
| Ethnicity | Predominantly African American |
| Membership | 6,000–8,000+[1] |
| Activities | |
| Allies | |
| Rivals | |
| Notable members | Jeff Fort Eugene "Bull" Hairston G Herbo Lil Bibby |
The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (often abbreviated as BPS, BPSN, Black Peace Stones, Black P. Stones, Stones, or Moes) is an American street gang founded in Chicago. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as the Blackstone Rangers. The organization was co-founded by Eugene Hairston and Jeff Fort. In later years, under Fort's leadership, an Islamic faction of the gang emerged, naming themselves the "El Rukn tribe of the Moorish Science Temple of America" (or simply El Rukn, Arabic