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

• Bynum, Timothy S., and Sean P. Varano. "The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit: An Aggressive Enforcement Approach to Gangs"

(2002). School of Justice Studies Faculty Papers. Paper 18. http://docs.rwu.edu/sjs_fp/18

• "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 ("chapters") 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®.

  Additional photos here.

• 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®.)

Blogs, etc.

• Weiser, Kathy. "Purple Gang–Terrorizing Detroit in the 1920's." Legends of America, updated July, 2010.
• Barner, Stefani. "Detroit’s Purple Past: Mayhem in Motor City." Jack Detroit, August 9, 2011.
• Grow, Mark. "The Purple Gang: Detroit's Most Ruthless Racketeers." Mid-Michigan Remembers Stories about Us, Delta College, 2005.
• Jones, Thom L. "The Colour Purple: Detroit’s Early Mob." Mob Corner, or Mafia-International, or Real Deal Mafia, 2008; note, this text is reprinted at "The Color Purple: Detroit’s Early Mob, Gangsters, Inc., November 17, 2010.

Encyclopedias

Wikipedia. Not worth the stop. There are more sentences on this page than in the WP article on this topic.