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.

Journalistic Sources

• Kavieff, Paul R. "Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang." Detroit News, July 16, 1999. Archived at WebCite® • Archived at Internet Archive

  Additional photos here.

• "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®.)

  also archived here and here.

Tertiary Sources

Blogs, websites, etc.

• "Detroit's Purple Gang," Absolute Michigan, Leelanau Communications, 2011.

  Mostly a reprint of the J-Grit article (see below) with links.

• Barner, Stefani. "Detroit's Purple Past: Mayhem in Motor City." Jack Detroit, August 9, 2011.
• Gribben, Mark. "The Purple Gang." True Crime TV (TruTV), Turner Entertainment Networks, 2011.

  Six pages ("chapters") including a bibliography.

• Grow, Mark. "The Purple Gang: Detroit's Most Ruthless Racketeers." Mid-Michigan Remembers Stories about Us, Delta College, 2005.
• The Purple Gang - Jewish Organized Crime, J-Grit: The Internet Index of Tough Jews, 2011.

  Has good "Further Reading" links at bottom.

• Jones, Thom L. "The Colour Purple: Detroit's Early Mob." Mob Corner, or Mafia-International, or Real Deal Mafia, 2008. <Apparently defunct>

  Note: this text is reprinted at "The Color Purple: Detroit’s Early Mob, Gangsters, Inc., November 17, 2010.

• 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 currently exist.

• Weiser, Kathy. "Purple Gang–Terrorizing Detroit in the 1920's." Legends of America, updated July, 2010.
• Subject Focus: The Purple Gang, Walter P. Reuther Library, 2013.

Encyclopedias

• Detroit Historical Society: Purple Gang.
• Wikipedia: a very extensive article and the principle reason why this CZ article is what it is. And, yes, they did use the definite article in the article name.