Rickey was born in Chicago to a 13-year-old girl who was the youngest of 15 children. His father was the youngest of 13. Rickey and his mother grew up together; he remembers her learning to drive. When he was in eighth grade, she graduated from high school. By the time he was 11, he brought home money for food, earned by being a lookout, climbing trees to watch for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. “A lot of people commit crimes in order to make a livelihood,” because they have few other options, Rickey says. He was arrested in one county and held for two days for failure to pay legal financial obligations owed in another county.
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