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Lucky Luciano

            
            
             Lucky Luciano was born in the hillside village of Lercara Friddi, Sicily, with the name of Salvatore Lucania. He was the third in a family of five children. His father wanted him to follow in his poor but hard working footsteps by teaching him the difference between right and wrong. Instead a life of crime was waiting ahead.
             The Luciano family had to fight to make ends meet and save up to come over to America in April 1906. The lucanias set off for America aboard a decrepit old steamship. Like many early foreigners, they arrived by staying below decks being considered as lower class. America was going to be a new start for Salvatore and his family. However "America was a place of even more toil and privation than they had known in poverty-stricken Sicily" (Jacobs 54). .
             The Lucania's set up house on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Their neighborhood consisted of many other Sicilians, Irish and Jews. The difficult stage in Salvatore's life was trying to learn English. This problem persisted until Salvatore rebelled by skipping school. He would hang out with a local street gang. His hardworking parents insisted that he finish school or get a job. After five years, Salvatore completed his schooling. While in school he made several contacts that would change the rest of his life. He became good friends with the local Jews in town. This connection helped form his future gang; this resulted in partnerships with mobsters of different ethnic backgrounds that were forbidden by traditional Sicilian Mafia gangs.
             By the time Salvatore was nineteen, he and his gang had already made a ton of money by resorting to crime. He had been arrested for drug trafficking but was quickly released for good behavior. He had the chance to become a straight hardworking man. Unfortunately after being back on the streets he went back to the life of crime. He became known as Charlie Lucania, because he hated the name of Salvatore.


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