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Gauthreaux, Alan G. (2010). "An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891–1924". Louisiana History. 51 (1). Louisiana Historical Association: 41– 68. JSTOR 40646346. Giordano, Paolo. " Italian Immigration in the State of Louisiana: Its Causes, Effects, and Results" Italian Americana 5#2 (1979), pp. 160–177 ...
The largest mass-lynching in American history was the mass-lynching of eleven Italians in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1891. The city had been the destination for numerous Italian immigrants. [11] [12] Nineteen Italians who were thought to have assassinated police chief David Hennessy were arrested and held in the Parish Prison. Nine were tried ...
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 ...
Articles relating to lynching in the United States, the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Saladino was accused of murdering a wealthy merchant. Arena and Venturella happened to have been in the same prison, accused of a different murder. All were rounded up together and lynched to "teach the lawless Italians a salutary lesson." After the lynching, another person confessed to the murder for which Arena and Venturella had been lynched ...
Founding location: 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.)
While the 1998 version does have significant redactions when referencing the name and location of the U-2 test site, the nearly un-redacted version from 2013 reveals much more, including multiple ...
Area 51 is a case study of how not to research and write about top-secret activities." [9] Historian Richard Rhodes, writing in The Washington Post, also criticized the book's sensationalistic reporting of "old news" and its "error-ridden" reporting. He wrote: "All of [her main source's] claims appear in one or another of the various publicly ...