[Michlib-l] Al Capone & Gangsters in Michigan

[lois-sez]

The Purple Gang worked out an arrangement with Capone letting him have the 
southwest of the state and also supplying him.  Michigan provided 3/4 of 
the smuggled alcohol during Prohibition.  (The Purple Gang even sent 
someone to help with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.)
  
  I do a Prohibition program, "High Times in Dry Times", personalizing it 
for areas as much as possible.  I have to mention the problem with 
gangsters, but do not make it the focus of my program, keeping it lighter.
  
 Contact the Historical Society of Michigan, https://hsmichigan.org/, for a 
program resource.  They have one next week on gangsters of the '20s and 
'30s, but the focus is up north and the presenter is from UC Berkeley.

LoiS(ongs and audience participation are in my program -- you seem to want 
something more gritty)  
 	 		 			 			Lois Sprengnether Keel
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			and in Historical Society of Michigan Directory
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   Dear Librarians,
  
 I am looking for someone who could present a program on Al Capone and the 
gangsters in Michigan. Did any library have a program on this subject in 
the past? I know there was The Purple Gang around Detroit, but there were 
gangsters in southwest Michigan also.
  
 Stephanie Daniels, Director
   Vanderlyn Community Center & Hartford Public Library 
12 Church Street  
 Hartford, MI 49057 
 (269)588-5103 
 http://www.hartfordpl.michlibrary.org/ 


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