Algiers is a district in southwestern New Orleans, Louisiana. Algiers was once a bustling district, but years of economic downturn and natural disasters took their toll on the area and its residents. The 1940s saw investors from Lakeview build Baron Saturday's Fun Park in the area, but its overtly racist theme led to its closure a mere three months after opening. During the 1960s, Algiers was home to the majority of the city's African-American population, and the Black Mob dominated organized crime in the district under the leadership of Sammy Robinson.
In 1968, Ritchie Doucet and the Dixie Mafia briefly took over the district with the help of the Marcano crime family, which killed Robinson and destroyed the Black Mob. However, Robinson's adoptive son Lincoln Clay took the neighborhood back from the Dixie Mafia, giving it to the Haitian Mob, another black gang. Algiers was rebuilt, with Baron Saturday's being replaced by an all-new amusement park and Sammy's Bar being rebuilt and reopened; most of this was thanks to Clay's generous funding.