Now i wondered which one of those Black racketeers had gang ties and to whom. You can expect the street organizations to plaay a pivotal role even at the wholesale scale too. Frank Matthews had a network in Chicago as well.
My belief is that some of those runners (African-American or Latino) which I previously mentioned in my article, already had their own dope networks around the Midwest and even all the way to New York. At the time, some Black gangsters from the Chi area transfered or fled to Brooklyn NY. If you want I can gather some info on which Chicago Black gangs during the early 1960's had dope connections to NY, Florida or around the Midwest.
