![]() That Dawley walks so seamlessly between these Recounting what passed for street justice in a 1968 Mater in front of a French bistro just minutes before Jeans, a polo shirt and sneakers cheering for his alma It is an odd scene: This social advocate dressed in Suddenly, Dawley, distracted, sees a woman running by in a Dartmouth T-shirt and yells out, “Go Held a gun to Dawley’s head for no apparent reason. Names of Little Fool, Dope Fiend and Fast, who once In what the Sun-Times called “the bloodiest corner inĬhicago,” alongside former gang members with the That is Lawndale, where Dawley lived on 16th Street Photo album of, as he puts it, “the old neighborhood.” Now 64, Dawley recalls the events of the lateġ960s a world away - 37 years later and sitting outside a French bistro in Bethesda, Md., just a 10minute drive from D.C., where he has an international consulting practice geared toward corporate andĭ awley displays documents and memora n d aįrom his days with the Vice Lords and breaks out a Of Fame, after winning two over-40 lightweight The Wearers of the Green, Dartmouth’s Athletic Hall Instructor (Dawley would later be honored as one of Were two black students in his graduating class atĭartmouth one on the crew team where he served asĪ coxswain and later as coach of the lightweight team Īnd none in the outing club where he served as a ski Mayflower father and a Scottish-born mother, andĪttended a grade school of all-white students. Middle of the street with a tape recorder and a camera with flames on both sides and trash barrels going Luther King was assassinated and the West Side went “You have to go through these layers of trust andĮxperience, which takes time, and I went through Vice Lords, became an official member and was protected from harm - even in the violent days and rioting that followed Rev. Turn, Dawley earned the respect and friendship of the Poor, black and disaffected, and received grants and Lords started businesses, campaigned for rights for the Lords clean up the Lawndale neighborhood. The late 1960s, were looking to shed their “gang”ĭuring Dawley’s two-year stay, he helped the Vice He becameĪ guiding voice and presence for the Lords, who, by Move in with the Vice Lords, becoming the only white Honduras with the Peace Crops, Dawley decided to Spurred by his post-college experience in That group was truly unique in our society, but Individualistic,” says Warren Wiggins, the former “The people coming out of the Peace Corps wereĮxceptional to begin with, and highly motivated and Gang in a city filled with violent gangs, to secure theirĬonfounding expectations, he stayed for nearly Lords, known in the mid-1960s as the most violent Non-profit organization that hired young, sociallyĬonscious workers to canvas poor areas around theĬountry to measure their attitudes toward federallyĭetermined to get to the root of poverty inĬhicago, Dawley sought out the Conservative Vice TransCentury Corporation, a Washington, D.C.-based Summer of 1967 to complete a survey for the White Vice Lord,” Dawley came to Chicago in the Recording the violent images and the flames that leapt fromĪ Dartmouth rower, skier and graduate, PeaceĬorps volunteer and the man recognized as “the only Through the middle of the tumult, 5-foot-6, 135-poundĭavid Dawley marched through the streets untouch e d , “notorious Vice Lords” by the Chicago Daily News, were in To as the “baddest” gang in Chicago and once dubbed as the Now the Conservative Vice Lords, the gang commonly referred Had been assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., a day earlier and ![]() Troops moved into the predominantly poor, black section of Fires raced along the sidewalks and twisted from the skyline, tempers flaring as predominantly white National Guard
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