ESSAYS-33417 David Barksdale Essay
David Barksdale was born in 1947 and was one of the first black men to create street gangs that had a modicum of power. Back in those days it was mostly Italians and Irish people that had street gangs, but in Donise David Barksdale‘s short life he become the leader of the Devil's Disciples, the Maniac Latin Disciples, the Black Disciples, Satan's Disciples and the Black Gangster Disciples.
He died when he was thirty, but is still remembered as one of the first black US crime lords. He was born with the name Donise David Barksdale in Sallis, Mississippi. His parents were Charlie and Virginia, and they had 13 children, so as you can imagine, David was brought up in a very poor family.
When David was 10 years old, he moved to Chicago with his family. It was 1957, and within three years he became a gang leader. He was only 13 years old, but he was the leader of a small gang. There were plenty of small gangs with black people in them, but they were small and seemingly harmless. They were still committing crime and killing, but the effect they had on the community was negligible. David changed all that by joining smaller groups into a larger group.
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At that point, he had changed his gang into the Black Disciple Nation, which was the biggest and most powerful black gang of all time. However, some of the smaller gangs took exception to the power that David was