Chuck Bryan

She didn't have a lot of dough to feed what was eight kids.

Well, a little of both.

He started stealing stuff when he was nine because he had to do something to provide for their family, but he never got caught there.

And, you know, we'll go over his formal rap sheet here in a minute, but...

He was sent to a juvenile detention center in Mason, Michigan.

It was about 10 miles south of Lansing.

And he went to a white school and he did a great job.

He was a really smart guy, a really smart kid, and made really good grades.

He was very charismatic from the beginning.

He was elected class president and had dreams of going to law school before his white teacher said a pretty terrible thing to him.

Yeah, he quit school.

He never went to school again after that.

And he had a very promising academic career in front of him, which is super sad.

So at 15, he goes to live with his half sister in Boston and eventually would get a job working at the railroad.

So he started traveling around some and by 17, found himself living in Harlem.

And this is where he got the name that stuck with him, you know, during his sort of early or later teenage years, I guess, Red.

He had this red hair.

So he was either Detroit Red or Big Red because he was a tall guy.

He was six foot four.

And just a little fun side note, while he was in Harlem, he was working at a chicken shack with a guy named John Sanford.