Photo by one of the Barrow gang. US Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.
17. Perhaps You Tried to Crime
The big gangs that had dominated cities during the Roaring Twenties had no trouble recruiting new people who were disaffected by the woes of the Great Depression. Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker and her Boys all turned to crime during this period. They were often seen as Robin Hood-type figures.
