One Way. The leaders of the Midget Vice Lords, the youngest contingent of the gang, pose for a photo in the heart of Lawndale. The photographer was a West Side youth worker who had established a close relationship with these youths.
White Gang. Members of a white youth gang stand watch on a street corner. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, white street gangs patrolled West Side communities, committing acts of violence and intimidation against African Americans seeking housing or just walking through their neighborhoods. Such actions served to reinforce bonds of racial solidarity and the will to mobilize collectively against racial injustices among the black youths who were the victims of such attacks
Junior Vice Lords playing basketball outside a Lawndale area school.
Info, and pics, taken from this online essay.
High Waters in Hell 
An excellent new blog and this post has amazing pictures. The chap in the hat within the second picture co-incidentally looks like a British Mod of the same era which is also true of the first guy in the mac. It’s a shame that cultural separation meant they couldn’t just get together and share style tips.
Reading the article behind the pictures adds substantial context to the pictures, whereas the British Mods I mentioned in my comment fought rockers (and each other) pointlessly over territory and choice of scene, the pictures document the ongoing struggle of racial equality and the adaptation of America to this movement. we tend to think of the style and socially conscious black music of the time as a cultural artifact but it was part of a vital, intense process of change that created positive outcomes and casualties. These pictures give us an initially superficial way to see the time which becomes imbued with meaning as we read about the background to them.
I think you are right Coyley, although I’m sure it wasn’t nice to be on the receiving end of a beating from a Rocker or a Mod, the gang violence of late 50’s and mid 60’s Chicago, was probably a hell of a lot worse. There was real desperation in these communities, and a feeling of dog eat dog survival. Where the young men in Britain clearly had enough of an income to buy bikes on credit, and entertain themselves at the weekends.