Mau Maus would become known as the Capeman Murders after the costume worn by Agrón and Paul Simon's Broadway musical "The Capeman" was based upon the life of Agrón. Mau Maus Mau Maus was the name of a 1950s street gang in New York City. The book and the adapted film "The Cross and the Switchblade" and biography "Run Baby Run" document the life of its most famous leader Nicky Cruz. Their name was derived from the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. Nicky Cruz wrote a book about his experiences called "Run Baby Run". Israel Narvaez committed his life to God and
Mau movement The apology covered the influenza epidemic of 1918, the shooting of unarmed Mau protesters by New Zealand police in 1929 and the banishing of matai (chiefs) from their homes. The Mau had manifestations in both the Western and Eastern Samoan island groups. The Mau movement emerged as an articulated of an indigenous response to the U.S. annexation of the eastern Samoan islands in 1899. It featured the signing of petitions in efforts to enact political transformation vis-a-vis American colonial government, and included effort to resist taxation of copra. There was an American Samoa Mau that took place in Tutuila in