In groups of four, the class read up and created powerpoints on important gangster figureheads from the 1920s. My group studied and presented our project on John Dillinger, where we learned life about organized crime artists from the 1900s.
John Dillinger was an insanely intelligent gangster, who in his lifetime robbed 24 banks, broke out of jail twice, and got shot 3 times in the face. He was a gangster since high school, after he dropped out to pursue his lifestyle.
These projects were important because it gave good insight into how gangsters lived back in the 1920's compared to how gangsters live now. It also gave information on why prohibition was a flawed law, and why it was revoked in amendment 21.
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