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Stanley Williams

1953 - 2005

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Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang. During the 1970s, Williams was the de facto leader of the Crips and the prominent crime boss in South Los Angeles. Williams's activities with the Crips ended in 1979 when he was arrested for the murder of four people during two robberies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Williams is the 207th most popular extremist (down from 196th in 2019), the 5,970th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,120th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Stanley Williams ranks 207 out of 283. Before him are Irmgard Möller, Charles Starkweather, Jane Toppan, Ramadan Shalah, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, and Robert Ford. After him are Ibn al-Khattab, Stand Watie, Ahmed Jabari, Richard Speck, Luis Posada Carriles, and Dick Turpin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Stanley Williams ranks 262. Before him are Andrey Makarevich, Gernot Rohr, Zoran Lilić, Sara Simeoni, Zoran Filipović, and Sylvia Chang. After him are Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Mark Frost, Robert Zoellick, Eric Bogosian, Martin Kippenberger, and David Hurley. Among people deceased in 2005, Stanley Williams ranks 183. Before him are William Rehnquist, Fei Xiaotong, Devan Nair, Yevgeny Grishin, Per Borten, and Johnny Haynes. After him are Jaime Sin, Polina Gelman, Marc Lawrence, Ralph Erskine, John Spencer, and Attilio Giovannini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley Williams ranks 5,970 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Daniels (1885), Edmund Szoka (1927), Donny Hathaway (1945), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), Florence R. Sabin (1871), and Richard Montague (1930). After him are Gene Wolfe (1931), Julie London (1926), Leo Sexton (1909), Lew Ayres (1908), Earl Hines (1903), and James Arness (1923).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Stanley Williams ranks 72. Before him are Patty Hearst (1954), Mary Surratt (1823), John Wesley Hardin (1853), Charles Starkweather (1938), Jane Toppan (1854), and Robert Ford (1862). After him are Stand Watie (1806), Richard Speck (1941), Robert Berdella (1949), William Bonin (1947), Mildred Gillars (1900), and Frank James (1843).

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