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  2. 1891 New Orleans lynchings - Wikipedia

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    The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, immigrants in New Orleans, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in American history.

  3. Vendetta (1999 film) - Wikipedia

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    Vendetta is a 1999 American crime drama television film directed by Nicholas Meyer, written by Timothy Prager, and starring Christopher Walken, Luke Askew, Clancy Brown, Alessandro Colla, Andrew Connolly, and Bruce Davison.

  4. Depiction of Italian immigrants in the media during Prohibition

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    Anti-Italian sentiment was linked to the Mafia, as in the infamous lynchings of 11 Italian Americans in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. Accused of murdering a New Orleans police chief, the suspected Mafia soldiers were assaulted and lynched while in prison awaiting sentencing. The news coverage from the event helped publicize the term "Mafia" in ...

  5. Kingdom of Soissons - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom or Domain of Soissons is the historiographical name [2] for the de facto independent Roman [3] remnant of the Diocese of Gaul, which existed during late antiquity as a rump state of the Western Roman Empire until its conquest by the Franks in AD 486. Its capital was at Noviodunum, today the town of Soissons in France.

  6. File:1891 New Orleans Italian lynching.jpg - Wikipedia

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  7. Italians in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    As of 2004 it is the oldest Italian-American society in New Orleans. Joseph Maselli, an ethnic Italian from New Orleans, founded the first pan-U.S. Italian-American federation of organizations. [3] The American Italian Cultural Center honors and celebrates the area's Italian-American heritage and culture. The AICC houses the American Italian ...

  8. Mississippi man found hanging in tree; Was it a lynching? - AOL

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    The discovery of a black man found hanged from a tree in Mississippi quickly made national headlines and brought back some unpleasant memories of American's violent, racially charged past. "Otis ...

  9. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    11 Italian Americans: Italian: New Orleans: Orleans: Louisiana: March 14, 1891: Killing of police chief: Three had been acquitted; three had a mistrial; five were never tried. Lynching organized by local leaders, including future mayor Walter C. Flower and future governor John M. Parker. Grand jury brought no charges. Hodges, Lewis African ...