The Gangs of Cuba

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The Gangs of Cuba
While the Bohemian community matured into a more stable ethnic neighborhood by the end of the nineteenth century, it was still plagued by juvenile gangs which roamed the Walworth Run, a natural border between "Cuba" and neighborhoods to the north. During the Spanish-American War, as this March 8, 1898 Cleveland PD article illustrates, the teen gangs took identities mimicking the war's combatants.

Image courtesy of Cleveland Public Library, Newspaper archives
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"The Gangs of Cuba" appears in: The Isle of Cuba