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Alphonsus Capone, also known as "Scarface", is regarded as being one of the most infamous gangsters in the 1920's. Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Gabriel Capone, and mother, Theresa Capone had moved the family to New York from Italy(Bergreen, 1996, pg 5). The neighborhood Al grew up in was filled with gangs and was extremely violent. Capone was a member of a couple of junior gangs at the young age of 11, where he learned skills with knives and guns. Most of the gang’s activities included gambling, pilfering, vandalism, sneaking a smoke or alcohol, secret ritual, smut sessions, fighting rival gangs. He soon became leader of the Forty Thieves Juniors, which is the younger version of the notorious adult Five Points gang(“Made in America”, Ch. 4). School had not been a big problem for Capone, in which he maintained a B average up to the 6th grade. It was then, around the age of 14, where he lost his temper with a teacher and hit her......

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