The Rangers also received grants and loans from private foundations. Fort's organization applied for and received a US$1 million federal grant from the now-defunct Office of Economic Opportunity to fund a program to teach job skills to gang members. Fry's guidance, Fort obtained a charter from the State of Illinois to form a political organization, Grassroots Independent Voters of Illinois, in 1967.
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The gang also received support from Presbyterian minister Reverend John Fry who advised Hairston and Fort how to manage their organization. He organized the coalition under a governing body called the "Main 21", composed of 21 gang leaders or "generals." As the Ranger organization grew, it became involved in community and political activism. By the mid 1960s, Fort assembled a coalition of 21 gangs with about 5,000 members. The Rangers fought rival gangs, especially the Devil's Disciples.ĭuring the early 1960s, Fort earned the nickname "Angel" for his ability to solve disputes and form alliances between the Rangers and other gangs. Hairston was the gang's leader with Fort as second in command.
The Blackstone Rangers comprised youth from the Blackstone Avenue area of Woodlawn, assembled to defend themselves against other gangs in the South Side. Around 1959, Fort and Hairston formed the Blackstone Rangers gang at St. Charles, where he met Eugene "Bull" Hairston. He dropped out of school after the fourth grade.įort spent time at Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center and at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. He moved with his family to the Woodlawn neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago in 1955. Jeff Fort was born on Februin Aberdeen, Mississippi. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. Jeff Fort (born February 20, 1947) is a former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P.
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