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The Almighty Vice Lord Nation ( Vice Lords for short, abbreviated AVLN) is the second-largest and one of the oldest street and prison gangs in Chicago, Illinois. Its total membership is estimated to be between 80,000 and 85,000. It is also one of the founding members of the People Nation multi-gang alliance. [ 3][ 7]
During Gore's tenure, the Vice Lords attempted to change their focus. They renamed the organization "Conservative Vice Lords" (CVL) and received acclaim from the community, politicians and police, as well as being awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant for around one-quarter million dollars. [3] The CVL even marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
Prosecutors said he was the highest-ranked Mafia Insane Vice Lord in the country and a member of the national leadership. He was also known as "P" and "Marty," per court records. Kevin Fordham, 53 ...
The 14th Street Clovers were the gang that later became the Vice Lords in the late 1950s. After several members of the 14th Street Clovers were incarcerated by 1957, the Egyptian Cobras had less competition. While incarcerated in the St. Charles Reformatory for Boys, the Clovers organized and became the Vice Lords. When the Vice Lords returned ...
Almighty Vice Lord Nation (AVLN): African American street, and prison gang in Chicago. Conservative Vice Lords (CVL): A primarily African American gang that originated in the St. Charles Illinois Youth Center outside Chicago. [26]
In 1978, Mickey Cogwell and Jeff Fort (now Black P. Stones), Vice Lords and Latin Kings formed an alliance system of their own, and titled it the "People". [citation needed] Jeff Fort of El Rukns, Bobby Gore of the Vice Lords, and Gustavo Colon of the Latin Kings were instrumental in the forming of this alliance.
Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation leadership have also called this group "conservative warriors," and enacted imagery of them marching into Washington, D.C., like an army.
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