Little Known Black History Fact: The Blackstone Rangers

In the early 1960s, two Chicago men by the names of Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston, also known as Angel and The Black Prince respectively, began an organization called the Blackstone Rangers. They were originated at the St. Charles Institution for Troubled Youth in the Woodlawn area of south Chicago, with a group of kids ages 12 to 15 years old.

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