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In every mafia movie I have seen, Black criminal organizations were always subservient to their White counterparts. Bumpy Johnson and Frank Lucas are portrayed to work UNDER the mob not WITH the mob. How true is this and were race-relations ever a factor within the criminal underworld?

by /u/J2quared in /r/AskHistorians

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