Hoe Avenue peace meeting

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The Hoe Avenue peace meeting was a gathering of gangs that took place in the Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1971. It was called to propose a general truce and an unprecedented inter-gang alliance, and was one of the first attempts by street organizations to broker a truce. The impetus for the meeting was the murder of Cornell Benjamin, known as "Black Benjie", a peace keeper of the Ghetto Brothers. While no lasting peace was ever established, a subsequent negotiation established a procedure for dealing with conflicts to avoid street warfare, and the truce lasted until the crack cocaine wars erupted in the early 1980s. The birth of hip-hop has been traced to playground jams during the truce period.

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