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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The lynching of 11 Italian Americans, suspected of Mafia connections, in New Orleans, 1891. Organized crime in the United States is referred to as La Cosa Nostra (Italian for "our thing"). Traditions of organized crime in the United States trace their roots to similar organizations in Sicily and southern Italy during the late 19th century.
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 ...
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In this period, the highly populated Iberia Parish had 26 lynchings of Black people by the KKK, as part of racial terrorism. This was the fifth-highest total of any parish in Louisiana, and tied with the total number of lynchings in Bossier Parish. [6] There was intense political factionalism in Louisiana.
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total.