Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. HistoryEleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans on March 14, 1891, by a mob of twenty thousand people, gathered together by the political, business, and labor elites a day after a jury acquitted six Italian Americans of the murder of the city's police chief. No one was charged or punished for this injustice. The lynching caused a disconnect between the president and congress of the United States, and Washington and Rome. The crisis was used by nativists to restrict immigration and to repress immigrant populations and also introduced a new word to the American vocabulary: mafia. |
Contents
Section 1 | 108 |
Section 2 | 108 |
Section 3 | 108 |
Section 4 | 108 |
Section 5 | 108 |
Section 6 | 108 |
Section 7 | 108 |
Section 8 | 108 |
Section 11 | 148 |
Section 12 | 150 |
Section 13 | 157 |
Section 14 | 158 |
Section 15 | 161 |
Section 16 | 182 |
Section 17 | 184 |
Section 18 | 186 |
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Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History Richard Gambino Limited preview - 1998 |
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