Junior Black Mafia - Aaron Jones

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Police believed Christian was the person who shot Palmer in the face, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The organization began in the 1960s as a relatively small criminal collective in South Philadelphia, known for holding up neighborhood crap games and dealing in the illegal drug business, but at its height of operation in the early 1970s until about the early 1980s, it managed to consolidate power and control a large portion of criminal activity in various African-American neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley (i.

Here’s what Tony Black who led the Philly branch of the Shower Posse said of the JBM situation, “The JBM were some clowns. In the song " Ghetto Qu'ran" rapper 50 Cent mentions several drug dealing figures in his neighborhood, including the notorious Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff.

Since their arrests and convictions in federal and state courts their legacy has lived on in street lore and popular culture. From its roots in Philadelphia’s ghettos in the 1960’s, it grew from a rabble of street toughs to a disciplined, ruthless organization based on fear and intimidation with links across the Eastern Seaboard. Fancy cars, furs, jewelry, new homes and legitimate businesses made for a comfortable life, providing of course, the drug money continued to flow.

who were initially skeptical of the benefits of JBM membership were persuaded through violence, threats, and intimidation. The Philadelphia Inquirer, as cited in Sean Griffin's "Philadelphia's Black Mafia: a Social and Political History," reported, "The Black Mafia is real.Their are a few books that have been published but this one is closest to all that took place from what I understand. The Black Mafia leadership almost immediately heard in the street what they already suspected, that Williams had engineered the stick-up, using neighborhood gang members, and that Williams had driven the getaway car himself. Its ferocious crews of gunmen grew around burly founder Sam Christian, the most feared man on Philly’s streets. The "Black Mafia" was formed to coordinate and consolidate historic inner-city crime in numbers, prostitution, and extortion of legitimate businesses, while combining with the rising drug demand in Philadelphia.