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William Poole - the Real "Bill the Butcher"
William Poole - The Real "Bill The Butcher" William Poole was a Nativist enforcer of The Native American Party, also known as The Know Nothing Party, which was a faction of the American Republican Party. The Know Nothing was a movement created by Nativists whom believed that the overwhelming immigration of German and Irish Catholic immigrants were a threat to republican values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. They were dubbed the Know Nothings by outsiders of their semi-secret organization. This had nothing to do with them knowing anything. It had to do with their reply when asked of the organization's activities, often stating, "I know nothing." Bill the Butcher was a leader of The Bowery Boys and known for his skills as being a good bare knuckle boxer. Poole's trade was that of a butcher, and was infuriated when many butchering licenses were being handed out to Irish immigrants. William Poole was born in Sussex County, New Jersey to parents of English protestant descent. His family moved to New York City in 1832 to open a butcher shop in Washington Market, Manhattan. Bill Poole trained in his father's trade and eventually took over the family store. In the 1840s, he worked with the Howard (Red Rover) Volunteer Fire Engine Company #34, Hudson & Christopher Street. Uunlike in the movie, William "The Butcher" Poole was shot in real life. However, he was shot at Stanwix Hall, a bar on Broadway near Prince. William Poole did not die in a glorious street battle against his Irish enemies. Instead, he died from the gun wound at his home on Christopher Street. -
Youth Gangs: Legislative Issues in the 109Th Congress
Order Code RL33400 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Youth Gangs: Legislative Issues in the 109th Congress April 21, 2006 Celinda Franco Specialist in Social Legislation Domestic Social Policy Division Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress Youth Gangs: Legislative Issues in the 109th Congress Summary Gang activity and related violence threaten public order in a diverse range of communities in the United States today. Congress has long recognized that this problem affects a number of issues of federal concern, and federal legislation has been introduced in the 109th Congress to address the subject. Youth gangs have been an endemic feature of American urban life. They are well attested as early as the 18th century and have been a recurrent subject of concern since then. Contemporary views of the problem have been formed against the background of a significant adverse secular trend in gang activity during the last four decades. In particular, the rapid growth of gang membership, geographical dispersion, and criminal involvement during the violent crime epidemic — associated with the emergence of the crack cocaine market during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s — have intensified current concerns. The experience of those years continues to mark both patterns of gang activity and public policy responses toward them. Reports about the increased activity and recent migration of a violent California- based gang, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), have heightened concerns about gangs in certain areas of the country. Policy development and implementation in this area are bedeviled by discrepant uses of the term “gang” and the absence of uniform standards of statistical reporting. -
The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
University of Kentucky UKnowledge United States History History 1974 The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 Adrian Cook Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at [email protected]. Recommended Citation Cook, Adrian, "The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863" (1974). United States History. 56. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/56 THE ARMIES OF THE STREETS This page intentionally left blank THE ARMIES OF THE STREETS TheNew York City Draft Riots of 1863 ADRIAN COOK THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY ISBN: 978-0-8131-5182-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-80463 Copyright© 1974 by The University Press of Kentucky A statewide cooperative scholarly publishing agency serving Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky State College, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. Editorial and Sales Offices: Lexington, Kentucky 40506 To My Mother This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix -
Eau Brummels of Gangland and the Killing They Did in Feuds Ho" It
1 9 -- THE SUN; SUNDAY, AtlGtlSTriSWi 1! eau Brummels of Gangland and the Killing They Did in Feuds ho" it v" A!. W4x 1WJ HERMAN ROSEHTHAL WHOSE K.1LLINQ- - POLICE COMMISSIOKER. EH RIGHT WHO IS IN $ MARKED T?e expressed great indignation that a KEEPING TJe GANGS SUBdECTIOK. BEGINNING-O- F crime had been committed. Ploggl .TAe stayed in. hiding for a few days whllo tho politicians who controlled the elec END FOR. tion services of the Five Points ar- ranged certain matters, and then ho Slaying of Rosenthal Marked the Be surrendered. Of courso ho pleaded e. ginning of the End for Gangs Whose "Biff" Ellison, who was sent to Sing Sing for his part In the killing of by Bill Harrington in Paul Kelly's New Grimes Had Been Covered a Brighton dive, came to the Bowery from Maryland when he was in his Crooked Politicians Some of WHERE early twenties. Ho got a Job' as ARTHUR. WOOD5P WHO PUT T5e GANGS bouncer in Pat Flynn's saloon in 34 Reformed THEY ObLUncr. Bond street, and advanced rapidly in Old Leaders Who tho estimation of gangland, because he was young and husky when he and zenship back Tanner Smith becamo as approaching tho end of his activities. hit a man that man went down and r 0 as anybody. Ho got Besides these there were numerous stayed down. That was how he got decent a citizen Murders Resulting From Rivalry Among Gangsters Were a Job as beef handler on the docks, other fights. bis nickname ho used to be always stevedore, and threatening to someone. -
Community and Politics in Antebellum New York City Irish Gang Subculture James
The Communal Legitimacy of Collective Violence: Community and Politics in Antebellum New York City Irish Gang Subculture by James Peter Phelan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Department of History and Classics University of Alberta ©James Phelan, 2014 ii Abstract This thesis examines the influences that New York City‘s Irish-Americans had on the violence, politics, and underground subcultures of the antebellum era. During the Great Famine era of the Irish Diaspora, Irish-Americans in Five Points, New York City, formed strong community bonds, traditions, and a spirit of resistance as an amalgamation of rural Irish and urban American influences. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Irish immigrants and their descendants combined community traditions with concepts of American individualism and upward mobility to become an important part of the antebellum era‘s ―Shirtless Democracy‖ movement. The proto-gang political clubs formed during this era became so powerful that by the late 1850s, clashes with Know Nothing and Republican forces, particularly over New York‘s Police force, resulted in extreme outbursts of violence in June and July, 1857. By tracking the Five Points Irish from famine to riot, this thesis as whole illuminates how communal violence and the riots of 1857 may be understood, moralised, and even legitimised given the community and culture unique to Five Points in the antebellum era. iii Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................... -
History of Gangs in the United States
1 ❖ History of Gangs in the United States Introduction A widely respected chronicler of British crime, Luke Pike (1873), reported the first active gangs in Western civilization. While Pike documented the existence of gangs of highway robbers in England during the 17th century, it does not appear that these gangs had the features of modern-day, serious street gangs. Later in the 1600s, London was “terrorized by a series of organized gangs calling themselves the Mims, Hectors, Bugles, Dead Boys [and they] fought pitched battles among themselves dressed with colored ribbons to distinguish the different factions” (Pearson, 1983, p. 188). According to Sante (1991), the history of street gangs in the United States began with their emer- gence on the East Coast around 1783, as the American Revolution ended. These gangs emerged in rapidly growing eastern U.S. cities, out of the conditions created in large part by multiple waves of large-scale immigration and urban overcrowding. This chapter examines the emergence of gang activity in four major U.S. regions, as classified by the U.S. Census Bureau: the Northeast, Midwest, West, and South. The purpose of this regional focus is to develop a better understanding of the origins of gang activity and to examine regional migration and cultural influences on gangs themselves. Unlike the South, in the Northeast, Midwest, and West regions, major phases characterize gang emergence. Table 1.1 displays these phases. 1 2 ❖ GANGS IN AMERICA’S COMMUNITIES Table 1.1 Key Timelines in U.S. Street Gang History Northeast Region (mainly New York City) First period: 1783–1850s · The first ganglike groups emerged immediately after the American Revolution ended, in 1783, among the White European immigrants (mainly English, Germans, and Irish). -
HISTORY of STREET GANGS in the UNITED STATES By: James C
Bureau of Justice Assistance U.S. Department of Justice NATIO N AL GA ng CE N TER BULLETI N No. 4 May 2010 HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES By: James C. Howell and John P. Moore Introduction The first active gangs in Western civilization were reported characteristics of gangs in their respective regions. by Pike (1873, pp. 276–277), a widely respected chronicler Therefore, an understanding of regional influences of British crime. He documented the existence of gangs of should help illuminate key features of gangs that operate highway robbers in England during the 17th century, and in these particular areas of the United States. he speculates that similar gangs might well have existed in our mother country much earlier, perhaps as early as Gang emergence in the Northeast and Midwest was the 14th or even the 12th century. But it does not appear fueled by immigration and poverty, first by two waves that these gangs had the features of modern-day, serious of poor, largely white families from Europe. Seeking a street gangs.1 More structured gangs did not appear better life, the early immigrant groups mainly settled in until the early 1600s, when London was “terrorized by a urban areas and formed communities to join each other series of organized gangs calling themselves the Mims, in the economic struggle. Unfortunately, they had few Hectors, Bugles, Dead Boys … who found amusement in marketable skills. Difficulties in finding work and a place breaking windows, [and] demolishing taverns, [and they] to live and adjusting to urban life were equally common also fought pitched battles among themselves dressed among the European immigrants. -
CRIMINAL JUSTICE in AMERICA FIFTH EDITION Cja Unit1a:Layout 1 7/10/2012 2:10 PM Page 1
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA FIFTH EDITION cja_unit1a:Layout 1 7/10/2012 2:10 PM Page 1 CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA FIFTH EDITION Developed by Marshall Croddy Bill Hayes cja_unit1a:Layout 1 7/10/2012 2:10 PM Page 2 601 South Kingsley Drive T. Warren Jackson, Chair Los Angeles, California 90005 Marshall P. Horowitz, Chair, (213) 487- 5590 Publications Committee www.crf-usa.org Jonathan Estrin, President Marshall Croddy, Vice President Developed by Subject Matter Consultants Marshall Croddy and Bill Hayes (Various Editions) Richard Chrystie, Deputy District Attorney, Board Reviewers Los Angeles County Marshall P. Horowitz, Lisa Rockwell, Val Cole, Deputy District Attorney, Patrick Rogan, K. Eugene Shutler, Los Angeles County Douglas Thompson, Lois Thompson Star French, Deputy Probation Officer, Editor Los Angeles County Bill Hayes John Hud, Criminal Defense Attorney, Bozeman, Montana Contributing Writers (Various Editions) Daniel E. Lewis, Attorney, Los Angeles Bill Hayes, Marshall Croddy, Todd Clark, Julia Rider, Luce, Forward, Hill, Jeffer & Teri Engler, Lucy Eisenberg, Damon Huss, Mangels Sandy Kanengiser, Carlton Martz, Betsy Devallis Rutledge, Special Counsel to the Salzman, Eden Kusmiersky, Coral Suter, District Attorney, Los Angeles County Charles Tremper, Michelle Ng, Roy Kim, Richard Simonian, Superintendent, C.K. Shruti Modi, Anjelica Sarmiento, Sophia Khan, Wakefield School, Fresno County Probation Marianna Muratova Department Researchers Captain Robert Taylor, Commanding Officer, (Various Editions) Juvenile Division, Los Angeles Police Rick Bhasin, Luke Delgado, and Michael Sokolson Department Kerry White, Head Deputy District Attorney, Production Juvenile Division, Los Angeles County Andrew Costly, Designer Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Criminal justice in America / developed by Marshall Croddy and Bill Hayes ; edited by Bill Hayes ; written by Bill Hayes .. -
Searching for You Bethany House, a Division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2018
ORPHAN TRAIN BOOK THREE S E A RCHI NG FOR YOU Jody Hedlund 5 Jody Hedlund, Searching for You Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2018. Used by permission. _Hedlund_SearchingforYou_LH_jck.indd 3 8/15/18 10:40 AM 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is on file at the Library of Con- gress, Washington, DC. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Control Number: 0000000000 © 2018 by Jody Hedlund Published by Bethany House Publishers 11400 Hampshire Avenue South Bloomington, Minnesota 55438 www.bethanyhouse.com Bethany House Publishers is a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— for example, electronic, pho- tocopy, recording— without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Hedlund, Jody, author. Title: Searching for you / Jody Hedlund. Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2018] | Series: Orphan train ; Book 3 Identifiers: LCCN 2018019436 | ISBN 9780764218064 (trade paper) | ISBN 9780764232749 (cloth) | ISBN 9781493416103 (e- book) Subjects: | GSAFD: Christian fiction. | Love stories. Classification: LCC PS3608.E333 S43 2018 | DDC 813/.6— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018019436 Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. -
The Irish-American Gangster in Film
Farrell 1 THE IRISH-AMERICAN GANGSTER IN FILM By Professor Steven G. Farrell 1 Farrell 2 When The Godfather was released in the early seventies, it effectively created a myth of the virtually unbeatable Italian crime family for the American public that endured for the remainder of the century. This film also effectively eliminated all other white ethnic organized gangs from the silver screen, as well as from the public’s eye. Hollywood, as we shall see, had their history wrong in this case. The Italian Mafia was never as invincible as Hollywood depicted it on film, nor did they always have everything their own way when it came to illegal activities. It wasn’t until the close of the last century that the film industry began to expose the old-time hoods as being fallible and besieged on all sides from new criminal elements connected with newly arrived immigrant groups. The Cubans, Russians and the Colombian hoods, along with the longer established African and Mexican American gangs, had begun to nibble away at the turf long controlled by the almighty Italian mob. As the paradigm of the urban underworld began to shift to reflect the new realities of the global economy, another look at the past by historians and Hollywood is revealing that the Italian gang never had absolute power as it was once commonly believed. The Irish hoodlums, to single out the subject of this paper, were actually engaged in gangland activities years before the arrival of the Italians and the Irish also competed with the Italians up until recently. -
The Old-Time Gangs of New York
THE OLD-TIME GANGS OF NEW YORK BY HERBERT ASBURY HE old-time gangs of New York City the older thieves, to whom they surren had their genesis in the tenements, dered their loot. Tsaloons and dance-houses of the old The Chichesters, Roach Guards, Plug Five Points and Paradise Square district; Uglies, Shirt Tails and Dead Rabbits were but their actual organization into working organized in other bogus grocery-stores, units, and the consequent transformation and in time these emporiums came to be of the area into an Alsatia of vice and regarded as the worst dens of the Five crime, followed the opening of the cheap Points, and the centers of its infamy and green-grocery speak-easies which sprang crime. The Shirt Tails were so called be up around the Square and along the streets cause they wore their shirts on the outside which, debouching into it, formed the of their trousers, like Chinamen, and the Points. The first of these speak-easies was expressive appellation of the Plug Uglies opened, about 1810, by Rosanna Peers, in came from the enormous plug hats of the Center street, just south of Anthony, now members, which they stuffed with wool Worth street. Piles of decaying vegetables and leather and drew down over their ears were displayed on racks outside the door, to serve as helmets when they went into but Rosanna provided a back room in battle. The Plug Uglies were for the most which she sold the fiery liquor of the part gigantic Irishmen, and included in period, her chief source of revenue, at their membership some of the toughest lower prices than it could be obtained at characters of the Five Points. -
Youth Gangs: Background, Legislation, and Issues
Order Code RL33400 Youth Gangs: Background, Legislation, and Issues Updated January 25, 2008 Celinda Franco Specialist in Social Legislation Domestic Social Policy Division Youth Gangs: Background, Legislation, and Issues Summary Gang activity and related violence threaten public order in a diverse range of communities in the United States today. Congress has long recognized that this problem affects a number of issues of federal concern, and federal legislation has been introduced in the 110th Congress to address some aspects of the issue. Youth gangs have been an endemic feature of American urban life. They are well attested as early as the 18th century and have been a recurrent subject of concern since then. Contemporary views of the problem have been formed against the background of a significant adverse secular trend in gang activity during the last four decades. In particular, the rapid growth of gang membership, geographical dispersion, and criminal involvement during the violent crime epidemic — associated with the emergence of the crack cocaine market during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s — have intensified current concerns. The experience of those years continues to mark both patterns of gang activity and public policy responses toward them. Reports about the increased activity and recent migration of a violent California- based gang, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), have heightened concerns about gangs in certain areas of the country. Policy development and implementation in this area are bedeviled by discrepant uses of the term “gang” and the absence of uniform standards of statistical reporting. There are reasons for special care in the use of data on gangs and their activity.