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The court and district attorney set the survivors free after the lynching and dropped the charges against the men who had not yet been tried. [54] Only one of the lynching victims, Polizzi, had a police record in the US, having reportedly cut a man with a knife in Austin, Texas, several years earlier.
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."
January 4 – Accursio Miraglia, a communist trade union leader from Sciacca. [1]May 1 – Margherita Clesceri, Giorgio Cusenza, Giovanni Megna, Francesco Vicari, Vito Allotta, Serafino Lascari, Filippo Di Salvo, Giuseppe Di Maggio, Castrense Intravaia, Giovanni Grifò and Vincenza La Fata, killed in the Portella della Ginestra massacre, during Labour Day celebrations in Sicily near Piana ...
Leavenworth took time to honor and remember three lynching victims from over 100 years ago, as part of their Juneteenth observances and celebrations.
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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
Country music star Jason Aldean 's latest music video for “Try That In A Small Town," lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry ...
Giovanni Falcone (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni falˈkoːne]; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. [1] [2] From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia.