![]() This area of Adams and Pulaski is still Black Soul territory presently and the home of the Rollin 4000 D-Block, Insane Solid Black Souls. In 1968 Walt Wheat invited the Black Souls to West Garfield Park to settle the west side of Pulaski right next to Four Corner Hustler original territory which is on the east side of Pulaski. It is facts that when the Four Corner Hustlers formed in 1968, Walter Wheat, the Four Corner Hustler founder was related to multiple Black Souls and King Pee Wee was a cousin of Walt Wheat. He was more than likely hanging out in the Delano Elementary School playground that is the founding spot of the Four Corner Hustlers. The former Latin King I spoke to said, him and his group ended up around Adams and Pulaski in the West Garfield Park neighborhood in the late 60s. ![]() He told me as a King they often traveled the city into various neighborhoods to attend parties, handle business and what not. I did speak to a gentleman that was a Latin King from Little Village between the years 1967-1971. The 1962 founding year that is in legends told on the streets could pertain more to the Soul Brothers that were for sure formed around at this time. It can make sense the Souls didn’t start until 68 because before then there are no stories, records, news articles or nothing on them before 68. It was rumored that Horace Willis was a Vice Lord before forming the Black Souls, but I am not positive about that and it could have been possible he was a Vice Lord up to 1968 then formed the Black Souls. ![]() There really isn’t much of a story on the Black Souls in the 1960s and it wouldn’t surprise me if the Black Soul group didn’t start until 1968. In one September 10, 1969, article the Impressionists killed a member of the Soul Brothers shooting him in the head. The Soul Brothers and Impressionists made the newspaper in 19 and the Black Souls were not in the media. From what I gather the Soul Brothers and Impressionists were more violent than the Black Souls. The Impressionists also came from the K-Town part of North Lawndale and were rivals of the Soul Brothers in these earlier years. Another group to begin mention is the Impressionists that began at about the same time as Black Souls and Soul Brothers. The Soul Brothers were known to be active in the North Lawndale community in the K-Town section by the later part of the 1960s. Outside of the roller rink these boys frequented the intersection of Madison and California in East Garfield Park which was just blocks away from the roller rink.Īnother part of the history was the creation of the Soul Brothers that allegedly started in East Garfield Park around Homan and Madison in about the same year by Frank Davis. These youths were not drug dealers and may not have even been gangbangers. Horace Willis was into music and was said to be a musician that was big into the down beat. The group of boys headed by Horace Willis, who was 12 at the time put together this skating group. The story begins in the year 1962 when some 12-year-old boys from East Garfield Park got together to form a roller-skating dance group that skated at 2550 West Madison Street (Madison and Rockwell) which has always been a skating rink that has changed hands over the years. The Black Soul earlier history is a tough one to figure out and is a culmination of different groups that came together. Heart with wings-gangster Black Souls, 440, 4 point star, black diamond-Mad Black Souls ![]() Winged Heart, 4 Point Star, and Black Diamond
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