The History of Traditional Organized Crime in America

The History of Traditional Organized Crime in America

Henry “Teenan” Jones

Black gangster

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Dec 17, 2025
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Henry “Teenan” Jones was born into slavery in Tuscumbia Alabama in 1861. In or about 1876, he and his brother Sam moved to Iroquois Illinois where henry married Nellie Johnson. Shortly afterward the …

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