The history of the Italian organized crime groups was that at first this organized group would not sell drugs this organized group had decided to leave the drug selling up to other organized groups. This soon became a thing of the past as the Italian organized group had to find away to increase their income to be able to provide for their families. Once the Italians saw the profits that the other organized groups were making from dealing in narcotics the Italians felt as though they in this had no other choice but to partake in this business they wanted to profit from like the other groups in the sell of narcotics. The African Americans gangsters were involved in dealing of cocaine as early as 1910 (Griffin, 2003). This was long before the Italian organized groups were involved in dealing drugs as one of their main rackets that were established. On the other hand African American gangsters had several other rackets established that was also very profitable. The connection between the two organized groups were made once the Italian organized crime groups saw that the African American gangsters were making as much profit as they were from their rackets. Once the Italians saw this they wanted to also profit just like the African American gangsters. Since the connection was made between the African Americans gangsters and the Italian organized crime groups this allowed both of the groups to move the product between the African American populations and then on to other populations then the drugs were being sold everywhere.

Reference:

Griffin, S. (2003) “Emerging organized crime hypothesis and criminology textbooks: The case of African-American organized crime. Journal Of Criminal Justice Education, 14(2), 287-301.

Lombrdo, R.M. (2002) The Black Mafia: African- American Organized Crime in Chicago 1890-1960. Crime, Law & Social Change, 38 (1),