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  2. Italians in the United States before 1880 - Wikipedia

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    In 1870, prior to the large wave of Italian immigrants to the United States, there were fewer than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian reunification and independence from foreign rule which ended in 1870. Immigration began to ...

  3. Frances Xavier Cabrini - Wikipedia

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    Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American, Roman Catholic, religious sister (nun). She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian ...

  4. Italian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The Italian diaspora (Italian: emigrazione italiana, pronounced [emiɡratˈtsjoːne itaˈljaːna]) is the large-scale emigration of Italians from Italy. There were two major Italian diasporas in Italian history. The first diaspora began around 1880, two decades after the Unification of Italy, and ended in the 1920s to the early 1940s with the ...

  5. Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia

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    Anarchism portal. Libertarianism portal. United States portal. v. t. e. Nicola Sacco (pronounced [niˈkɔːla ˈsakko]; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (pronounced [bartoloˈmɛːo vanˈtsetti, -ˈdzet-]; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of ...

  6. Immigration to Italy - Wikipedia

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    Immigration to Italy. In 2021, Istat estimated that 5,171,894 foreign citizens lived in Italy, representing about 8.7% of the total population. 98 to 99 percent more of Italy's full population is (caucasioid) as 2024. [1][2] These figures include naturalized foreign-born residents (about 1,620,000 foreigners acquired Italian citizenship from ...

  7. Fiorello La Guardia - Wikipedia

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    Fiorello Raffaele Enrico La Guardia, with Raffaele later removed and Enrico Americanized to Henry, was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, on December 11, 1882, to Achille Luigi Carlo La Guardia and Irene Luzzatto-Coen. He was named in honor of his maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather, and uncle.

  8. Italian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. According to the Italian American Studies Association, the current population is about 18 million, an increase from 16 million in 2010, corresponding to about 5.4% of the total population of the United States.

  9. Early life of Frank Sinatra - Wikipedia

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    Hoboken, New Jersey, early 20th century. Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street [a] in Hoboken, New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra. [5][6][7] The couple had eloped on Valentine's Day, 1913, and were married ...