Purple Gang

Purple Gang can refer to:

  • The Purple Gang, Jewish American bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s
  • The Purple Gang (band), British rock band active intermittently since the 1960s
  • East Harlem Purple Gang, Italian American gang of drug dealers and hitmen
  • Purple People Eaters, defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from the late 1960s to the late 1970s

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or gang:

    “Night is a curious child, wandering
    Between earth and sky, creeping
    In windows and doors, daubing
    The entire neighborhood
    With purple paint.”
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

    “The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft agley;
    An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)