As prisons began to desegregate, many inmates organized along racial lines.[1] The Aryan Brotherhood is believed to have been formed at San Quentin State Prison,[2] but it may have been inspired by the Bluebird Gang.[13] They decided to strike against the blacks who were forming their own militant group called the Black Guerrilla Family.[14] In the early 1970s, the Aryan Brotherhood had a connection with Charles Manson and the Manson Family.