GUY

The story you are about to read is the true story of an American gangster unlike any other gangster in the history of the United States. It is the story of a man who was born in New York and raised in a housing project in the Bronx known as the Patterson Projects. Guy Fisher's association with several well-known drug dealers earned him wealth, success, and the title of "infamous." He would also make history by becoming the first African American to own and operate the world-famous Apollo Theater located in Harlem in New York. Several years later, he would be arrested, convicted in a federal courtroom, and sentenced to a life-plus term of imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for his drug-related crimes. However, during Guy Fisher's thirty-eight years of incarceration, he would earn his associate's, bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees, becoming the first and only person in the history of the Bureau of Prisons to earn himself a PhD in sociology and the title and privilege of being called Dr. Guy T. Fisher! Read more