Milwaukee
Are things just fine here?
Or is this a City in Trouble?
This was Allis-Chalmers, a symbol of the industrial era. The world has moved on, but Milwaukee is stuck in the past. Picture courtesy of Lakeview Press.
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HISTORY
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Milwaukee has had gangs dating back to the early industrial era. These were juvenile gangs like Thrasher described in Chicago and were the focus of Milwaukee's juvenile courts (link to Steven Schlossman's Love and the American Delinquent in the bibliography)
By the 1960s, Milwaukee gangs were strongly influenced by Chicago gangs, with many families moving north to Milwaukee to get away from gang problems. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Community Education Program was set up in collaboration with Jeff Fort and the then Blackstone Rangers.
People & Folks documents the resurgence of gangs in the late 70s and early 80s. It argues that gangs started up like the corner groups of the industrial era. But as gang members grew up, the lack of decent jobs altered the very nature of gangs.
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