Who is chalky white character based on

Chalky initially planned to murder Valentin at his brothel. In episode two, Chalky White, a gangster and prominent member of the African-American community in Atlantic City, is being held in jail. Chalky, however, is largely illiterate, a fact he has managed to keep hidden from his wife. Nucky orders the police to arrest Chalky for his own protection. Something that is chalky is a pale, dull color or has a powdery texture.

Her face became a chalky white. Chalky runs into Narcisse in Harlem with a plan to set Daughter free. Their conversation is however interrupted by the dancers, and after asking one of them to watch what he's doing, the man responds by slashing Samuel's face with a knife.

Dunn Purnsley emerges from the crowd and he beats the man to a bloody pulp. Chalky arrives on the scene and demand that they both leave, Samuel on the other hand insists on helping the beaten man. Chalky now staring with his own scar at his daughter demands her to look him in his eyes and tell him if she still finds him interesting.

About a month later when Nucky Thompson 's obsession with Billie Kent has reached it's climax and takes it upon himself to save Billie's career. Nucky calls upon Chalky and Dunn Purnsley in to strong-arming Eddie Cantor to take on a lead-role in a show where Billie is starring. He and Purnsley arrives to the hotel where Cantor is staying and they pay a visit to his room. Cantor is first confused by their visit but soon realizes what it's all about. Chalky and Dunn make him perform for them on the spot.

Cantor agrees and tries his best to amuse his visitors but to no avail, he then asks Chalky and Purnsley to tell Nucky that he'll do it. However Nucky is in no condition to discuss that at the moment, he at one time mistakes Chalky for his shoeshiner Harlan. Chalky decides to wait with his proposition until the next time they'll meet. The next time he arrives to Nucky's office, Nucky has become more lucid and Chalky decides to proceed with his plan. He explains to Nucky that he has a lot of financial backing and connections all around United States that will help him bring in the right acts to a new night club he wants to open on the Boardwalk where black people will work and perform while white people will be it's customers.

He also makes it clear to Nucky that he will give him a proper cut of the profit from the club and that nobody wants to be reminded of what happened to the previous club. Nucky is however not as enthusiastic explaining that there is a line for what can be done and tells Chalky that he can't make a decision since he has other things to take care of for the moment.

They continue to argue until Nucky angrily asserts that he has told Chalky how things stand and asks why he has a hard time understanding that. Chalky leaves Nucky very displeased. Not many hours later, Joe Masseria and Gyp makes their move on Atlantic City and their men scattered all over town looking for Nucky. Nucky and his bodyguard Eddie Kessler however has managed to escape from town and arrives in the middle of the day at Chalky's Honky Tonker. Nucky asks Chalky for assistance in fighting Gyp as well as his help to find a doctor to treat the wounded Eddie.

Chalky is reluctant after Nucky shut down his idea for a club, but agrees to keep Nucky safe for the moment. Chalky calls upon Samuel to save Eddie, Samuel agrees to help them and they begin a surgery on Eddie to get the bullet out of his stomach.

The surgery is however interrupted by Gyp who has arrived to the north side of town to ask Chalky about Nucky. Chalky walks outside and meets with him and during a long confrontation, weighs his option of giving up Nucky or protect him.

He chooses the later and makes sure Gyp is on his way away from there. Nucky then asks Chalky to get him out of town, which Chalky agrees to help him with. In the middle of the night Chalky and Purnsley puts Nucky in the back of a pickup truck to transport him out of town. Along the way they are however stopped by three of Masseria's men.

They end up killing them and Nucky then makes it clear to Chalky that it will be a price on his head as well from now on and that he won't leave his own town. Chalky then orders Dunn to head back to the Honky Tonker to fetch their men. They proceed by driving to a lumberyard where [Eli Thompson]]'s eldest son William Thompson is waiting for them and lets them in. While hold up at the lumberyard, Nucky makes a promise to Chalky that if he get the town back he will give Chalky the club that he's been asking for.

After hearing this Chalky decides to help Nucky in his war and the two shake hands. Seconds later cars arrives which the two first believe to be men there to kill them, but they actually turns out to be Dunn with their men from the Honker Tonker as well as Eli and Al Capone arriving with reinforcements from Chicago.

Nucky and his allies makes the lumberyard their headquarter and In the following days a turf war ensues in Atlantic City with both sides suffering casualties. During the time held up in the lumberyard, Chalky's and Capone's men have a hard time keeping their enemy on hold while fighting the war and Nucky has to keep them separated. Later when a big brawl is just about to start between the two groups, Nucky and Eli emerges from their office and declares that Masseria has withdrawn his support from Gyp and he needs Chalky and Capone to plan their victory out.

The plan is for Nucky and Eli to head for the Artemis Club to murder Gyp and for Chalky and Capone to take all their men to a narrow road in the woods, where they will massacre all of Masseria's men returning to New York. Chalky's and Capone's mission is later accomplished. Boardwalk Empire Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Lansky is considered one of the architects of the American mafia, helping the outfit to consolidate vast amounts of wealth and power through his intelligent schemes. On June 20, , Siegel was killed instantly when he was shot in the head and body as he relaxed on a sofa in a Beverly Hills home. Some reports say that Lansky tried to hold the mob off from killing his friend, and others say that Lansky was the one who ordered the hit.

In Boardwalk Empire , Arnold Rothstein was a sophisticated gentleman who was well-spoken and had a knack for winning in his gambling ventures. The real-life Rothstein was incredibly adept at gambling games, and, at the age of 20, he already owned and operated his own casino. But gambling is eventually what killed the gangster. In , Rothstein was found bleeding to death from gunshot wounds at the service entrance of the Park Central Hotel in Manhattan.

Supposedly, Rothstein had refused to pay a gambling debt based on the premise that the game was rigged. When authorities asked him who pulled the trigger, Rothstein placed his finger to his lips, signaling that the mafia code of silence would stay intact, even as he lay dying.

After he was imprisoned in an Atlanta penitentiary in for tax evasion, a medical exam revealed that he had the disease.