After King Pee Wee was killed Wayne “Jack Bobo” Edwards took control of the organization. This was the time when Black Souls merged with the Soul Brothers to create the “Mad Black Soul Brothers” and this is how this organization first took over Fifth City.  The Black Soul Brothers name did not last long before they became just the Black Souls or went by just “Mad Black Souls.”

After Horace Willis’ death in 1970, the Souls then spread their influence into the southern part of the West Humboldt Park neighborhood at the same time that the Supreme Gangsters arrived and vicious gang rivalry ensued.

Jack Bobo was a former member of the Supreme Gangsters and kept his beliefs in making money that came from being Supreme Gangster or BGD.  At some point he flipped to become a Black Soul and after Pee Wee’s death in 1970 Bobo took over control and as he did he introduced “Gangster Black Soul” concepts in 1976.  Bobo set up business with the Supreme Gangsters in 1976 and the Souls became a money making organization especially tapping into the west side heroin trade.  Jack Bobo was really close with Larry Hoover before Larry was incarcerated so this allowed business to happen.  They would eventually evolve into a complex syndicate that would have one of the most complex drug distribution networks in the city.  I’m not sure exactly when the Soul Brothers and Black Souls merged but I think it happened in 1976 when Jack Bobo took over.