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In late 19th-century America, there was a growing number of Italians who had been brought in by the business community to replace black labor. Sugar planters, in particular, sought workers who were more efficient than formerly enslaved people; they hired immigrant recruiters to bring Italians to southern Louisiana.
Western area of Parish (county) Union: Louisiana: March 1914: Accused of assaulting a white man (J.P. McDougall) [338] J.P. McDougall was whipping Allen Turner's son. Allen was defending his son. Taken from deputy sheriff and shot to death. It is said that Allen's body was then dragged through the roads of Spearsville. Shields, Dallas: African ...
Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Louisiana" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The lynching of African American William "Froggie" James in Cairo, Illinois, on November 11, 1909. A crowd of thousands watched the lynching. [ 19 ] Postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings .
The Italians were still citizens (nationals) of Italy, and their government protested strongly to the United States government about each lynching murder. The US government said that the states had to prosecute such killings. [7] As was typical in this period of frequent lynchings of black US citizens, none of the white lynch mob was prosecuted ...
Most of the lynchings occurred in the American South, as the majority of African Americans lived there, but racially motivated lynchings also occurred in the Midwest and border states. In 1891, the largest single mass lynching in American history was perpetrated in New Orleans against Italian immigrants.
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States: Years active: c. 1860s–2007 [1] [2] Territory: Primarily the New Orleans metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, as well as Las Vegas and Havana: Ethnicity: Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates: Membership (est.)
Italians have had a presence in the New Orleans area since the explorations of the Europeans. [2] Many Sicilians immigrated to New Orleans in the 19th century, traveling on the Palermo-New Orleans route by ship. [3] [4] The number of Italians who immigrated in the late 19th century greatly exceeded those who had come before the American Civil ...