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Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14. In his early twenties, he moved to chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition. Capone was publicly criticized for his supposed involvement in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, when seven rival gang members were executed. Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.

Johnson was born in //Charleston//, //South Carolina's// on October 31, 1905. Johnson derived his nickname "bumpy" from a bump on the back of his head.When he was 10, his older brother, Willie, was accused of killing a white man. As Bumpy got older his parents worried about his short temper and insolence toward whites, so they sent him to live with his older sister Mabel in harlem in 1919. Johnson and Schultz entered into a truce where Johnson and St. Clair paid the "family tax" to Dutch and the Italian families, in order to continue to operate independently. A cavalry and military commander in the war, Forrest is one of the war's most unusual figures. Less educated than many of his fellow officers, Forrest had amassed a fortune prior to the war as a planter, real estate investor, and slave trader.He was one of the few officers in either army to enlist as a private and be promoted. Forrest was well known as a Memphis speculator and Mississippi gambler.

the American Mafia has no formal name and is a secret criminal societyfor most of the 20th century there were 26 cities around the United States with Cosa Nostra families, with many more offshoots, splinter groups and associates in other cities. Although the Mafia is currently active in the New York metropolitan area, Philadelphia. Mafia groups in the United States first became influential in the New York City area.

Smith got an early start, being trained in ballet and dance and spent her teen years performing as a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Company in operas such as //Aida//, //La Traviata//, and //Faust//. By the 1920s she was a star on Broadway in shows such as //Helen of Troy, New York// (1923), //Sitting Pretty// (1924), and //The Street Singer// (1929), and by the mid-30s had made her way into films. She starred on Broadway in George and Ira Gershwin's musical //Tip-Toes//(1925). Queenie Smith was a teacher and mentor to many a young actor. She taught at the Hollywood Professional School and was the Director for the training program at Melodyland Theater, Anaheim, California, during the 60's.