The Role Of Mobsters In The 1920s

Mobsters of the 1920’s During the early 1920's large groups of italian immigrants came to america. They started off as a couple of thousand but as word spread out about jobs more came. A couple thousand later became couple of hundreds of thousands. Most of them derived from Italy; as they did not have a stable economy,they came for a search of a better life. Government was overuleing as well and italians were not pleased with how their country was. After the wars began more and more people came to america in search of an “American Dream”. But within the big groups of people came over spies and criminals from italy. They started to create small neighborhood organizations. These organizations …show more content…
They started off small with not much popularity going their way for bootlegging so instead they worked as hitmen. Hitmen are people sent to assassinate an individual for a price tag. The higher network a person had the more money their head was worth. Some killed to gain the money from head collectors. Furthermore they did several heist as well. Heist were usually a group of people sent on a mission to gather or steal money or an item of high value. This included bank robberies, drug smuggling and trading drug money in hidden areas …show more content…
To begin, George Kelly Barnes also known as Machine Gun Kelly live his life as a bootlegger, small time bank robber , and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico in the 1920s and '30s(“Machine”). Despite the hostile nickname Kelly was a minor criminal; committing small forms of bootlegging and joining a gang. But his kidnap of 1934 is what made him and infamous mobster . He later did bank robberies along with his wife. They were both sentence for life in prison. Kelly then died still in jail in 1954.