Take Note: The Black Mafia, Part 1

Take Note: The Black Mafia, Part 1

For twenty years, beginning in the late 1960's, the infamous 'Black Mafia' was involved in extortion, murder, drug trafficking, and embezzlement in the predominantly African-American sections of Philadelphia.  The organized group collapsed in the late 1980s after several successful prosecutions.  Who was the 'Black Mafia?' What can we learn about organized crime?  Sean Patrick Griffin's book, Philadelphia's Black Mafia, A Social and Political History, is published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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