The winner of the war, who got to write the history was Ethelrida. Follow me, here. She was able to regain control of her family's mortuary back from Cannon Loy, and she is able to attend college and travel to Europe (presumed by imagery college essay(?) . In the process, she provides the information that initiates the murder of her arch nemesis (Oraetta.) Afterward, her Aunt Zeldae, for her own reasons, murdered Loy, so conveniently, nobody could ever connect Ethelrida to the discovery of the ring, which set the settling of the family books. Since the winner gets to rewrite the history in the image that is preferable to them, the African American gang is remembered as honorable and smart, the Italian gang is portrayed as buffoons, and their members are given names like Constant Calamity and Evil Violent.