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1891 New Orleans lynchings - "largest single mass lynching in American history"
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:35 am
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:35 am
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and Italian 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.[2][3][note 1] Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up and charged due to their Italian ethnicity.[6]
The lynching took place on March 14, the day after the trial of nine of the nineteen men indicted in Hennessy's murder. Six of these defendants were acquitted, and a mistrial was declared for the remaining three because the jury failed to agree on their verdicts. There was a widespread belief in the city that Italian-American organized crime was responsible for the killing of the police chief, in a period of anti-Italian sentiment and rising crime. Italian-American voters were also known to prefer the scandal plagued city political machine to the new Reform Democrat Mayor, whose own role in inciting the violence that followed may well have been an attempt to misuse government power for the repression of his political opponents.
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Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:37 am to GumboPot
I first read 1981 and said WHATTTT
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:37 am to GumboPot
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and Italian immigrants
Yet Mario Andretti never lied about seeing a noose in his Nascar garage
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:37 am to GumboPot
Largely forgotten for failing to fit the narrative ….
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:38 am to GumboPot
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largest single mass lynching in American history"
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and Italian immigrants in New Orleans by a mob
All the moderates here have to catch their breath and calm their fingers down from typing
White boy z is furiously looking through his slave records for a blurb that says 12 slaves were killed in South Alabama in 1839
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:40 am to GumboPot
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans
They obviously misspelled African
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:41 am to GumboPot
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While only a teenager, he caught two adult thieves in the act, beat them with his bare hands, and dragged them to the police station. He made detective at the age of 20.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:42 am to tigerpimpbot
quote:not really
Largely forgotten
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:45 am to GumboPot
WHO KILLA DA CHIEF?
Pay us dagos our reperations
Pay us dagos our reperations
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:48 am to tigerpimpbot
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Largely forgotten for failing to fit the narrative ….
Too many of us with blue eyes and light brown hair don't look the part.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:50 am to GumboPot
Italians were hated heavily back then. That wouldn't be only time of Italians being lynched. Even the elites were hateful like both presidents named Roosevelt and even the conservationist, Hornaday, hated them and called them "human mongoose."
This post was edited on 1/4/24 at 7:52 am
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:51 am to GumboPot
quote:"You dont say" gif......
There was a widespread belief in the city that Italian-American organized crime was responsible for the killing of the police chief
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:51 am to GumboPot
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largest single mass lynching in American history
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11 Italian Americans and Italian immigrant
"Oh, no. This can't be."
--kangs
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:58 am to GumboPot
The old New Orleans wax museum on Conti had an exhibit on this incident.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 8:04 am to GumboPot
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1891 New Orleans lynchings - "largest single mass lynching in American history"
For some reason we don’t have memorials and the media and SPLC reminding us of this every year. But we have to hear about how they’d be Kangz if not for Tulsa.
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and Italian immigrants
Well there it is
Posted on 1/4/24 at 8:04 am to GumboPot
They hung my people from trees... Like strange fruit....
Posted on 1/4/24 at 8:18 am to DomincDecoco
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WHO KILLA DA CHIEF?
I remember my Irish grandmother telling me the story as a child. I think, overall, she felt like they had it coming. Mistakes were made, but something had to be done about those dirty Sicilians.
Meanwhile, she was taking us to Casamento's for lunch. So she wasn't completely anti-Italian.
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