Purple Gang/External Links
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Primary Sources
- Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Purple Gang (aka Sugar House Gang)." four pdf files.
- The FBI has many documents on the Purple Gang and many pages in its website discuss the gang.
Secondary Sources
- "Detroit's Purple Gang," Absolute Michigan, Leelanau Communications, 2011.
- Mostly a reprint of the J-Grit article with links.
- Gribben, Mark. "The Purple Gang." True Crime TV (TruTV), Turner Entertainment Networks, 2011.
- Six pages including a bibliography.
- The Purple Gang - Jewish Organized Crime, J-Grit: The Internet Index of Tough Jews, 2011.
- Has good "Further Reading" links at bottom.
- Kavieff, Paul R. "Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang." Detroit News, July 16, 1999. Archived at WebCite®.
- Lipman, David E. "Detroit's Purple Gang: Bootlegging, Fraud, and Murder by a Gang of Detroit Jews." My Jewish Learning, 2011.
- Lipman claims that this article was reprinted by permission from the "Gate of Jewish Heritage" site, either www.jewishgates.com or www.jewishgates.org, neither of which exist.
- "Mobsters, Mayhem & Murder." The Times Magazine, originally The Walkerville Times. Walkerville Publishing, 2006.
- The Walkerville Times focused on news in and around Windsor, Ontario. It is now defunct.
- Whitall, Susan. "The Purple Gang's Bloody Legacy." The Detroit News, June 9, 2001. (Archived at WebCite®.)
Encyclopedias
Wikipedia. Not worth the stop. There are more sentences on this page than in the WP article on this topic.