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The Purple Gang (1960) - Movie

Al Capone was the most dangerous man in America. And he was afraid of a gang from Detroit. They called them the Purple Gang. Two shopkeepers on Detroit's Lower East Side watched a group of immigrant kids terrorize their block. Stealing from pushcarts. Rolling drunks near Eastern Market. Shaking down the same merchants their parents worked alongside. "Those boys are rotten," one said. "Purple. Like the color of bad meat." The name stuck. Within a decade, those kids would become the most feared cr

15K views · 18K reactions | The Purple Gang. Experts say around 75% of the alcohol consumed during prohibition came across the Detroit river. While many outfits operated at that time, for a while, the Purples were the most feared. #Detroit #history #gangsters #detroithistory #purple | Dave Landau | Facebook