... symbolic of these Mexican gangs, as it was a belief that a son would follow in his father's footsteps and claim the same gang. Some of the very first Mexican gangs were Bunker Hill, Maravilla, North Broadway and Boyle Heights. Tradition and the importance of defending their territory became two trademarks of the Mexican gangs that still exist today. African American street gangs began ... family members in gangs and coming from single parent households. The eight gang members I interviewed all told me that their family life was unstable and that they were unsupervised. Karl Hill and Bat...

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... thousand troops for whom it was a pioneer would never have put into the field. But it did not falter. It made Fort Wagner such a name for the colored race as Bunker Hill has for ninety years to the white Yankees".30 They had fought in a battle that indisputably showed the blacks courage and ability. Because of the proven ability of African American ... Civil War (https://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/african.html, April 14, 1999). 3. Fincher. 4. Ibid. 5. Page Smith, Trail by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (USA: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1982): 308. 6. Thomas B. Alle...

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... in the middle of the instrumentals, and our sung by Pink on a balcony in a Nazi-like setting. The song ends with a clip of Pink's father being killed by a bomb in a bunker. As the next song, "The Thin Ice," begins the war has ended and the wounded are recovered. The beginning of this song is far from our standard rock and sounds ... ." Then there is the more obvious Bob Dylan reference to pot in the oddly titled "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35." Today censorship has become diluted to the point that Cypress Hill can release a song titled "I Want to Get High," and no one will think twice. The s...

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