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Rodger Desaulniers was a Dixie Mafia pimp.

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Rodger "Rooster" Desaulniers was a Dixie Mafia associate and a member of Merle Jackson's crew and Merle's cousin. Desaulniers worked as a pimp for Jackson's prostitution ring in Algiers, pimping out African-American women to lowlife bigots like himself. In 1968, Lincoln Clay tracked him down to his hideout in a slum of Algiers and stabbed him dead, weakening Jackson's crew.

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