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It was the largest single mass lynching in American history. [1] [2] [note 1] Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up and charged due to their Italian ethnicity. [5] The lynching took place on March 14, the day after the trial of nine of the nineteen men indicted in Hennessy's murder.
The lynching victims expressed approval for his actions and were jailed for disturbing the peace. On August 1, 1908, a mob demanded release of the men, and lynched them from a tree. A note pinned to one of the men read, "Let this be a warning to you niggers to let white people alone or you will go the same way."
Falcone had been a member Antimafia pool of the prosecution office in Palermo that laid the groundwork for the Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia. [ 31 ] September 17 – Ignazio Salvo , a wealthy businessman from the town of Salemi with strong connections with the Mafia and the Christian Democrat party , in particular with the former mayor ...
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Katsu (or Jun) Goto (後藤濶) (née Kobayakawa) (1862–1889) was a Japanese merchant, interpreter, and lynching victim. [1] He was the leader of a fledgling Japanese community in Honokaa . Early years
In a post to Facebook, Vauhxx Booker wrote, “I don’t want to recount this, but I was almost the victim of an attempted lynching.” He went on: “On July 4th evening others and me were ...
Filmore Watt Daniels [sic] and Thomas F. Richards [sic] were lynched near Mer Rouge, Louisiana, United States, by black robed Ku Klux Klan members on August 24, 1922. . According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary they were the 47th and 48th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United St