An edition of Vendetta (1977)

Vendetta

a true story of the worst lynching in America, the mass murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, the vicious motivations behind it, and the tragic repercussions that linger to this day

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An edition of Vendetta (1977)

Vendetta

a true story of the worst lynching in America, the mass murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, the vicious motivations behind it, and the tragic repercussions that linger to this day

1st ed.

by

  • 4 Want to read

Eleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans on March 14, 1891, by a mob of upwards of twenty thousand people. They had been called together by the city's political, business, and labor elites a day after a jury acquitted six Italian Americans of the murder of the city's police chief. Those responsible for the lynching proudly took credit for it, but no one was charged or punished for it.

The lynching caused a crisis between the President and Congress of the United States, between Washington and Rome. The lynching was used by lobbyists to further the building of an American Navy to achieve American status as a world power, and by nativists to restrict immigration and to repress immigrant populations. It also introduced a sinister word to America: Mafia.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
198

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Subjects

History, Italian Americans, Lynching, Mass murder, Southern states, history, Murder

Places

Louisiana, New Orleans

Times

19th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: Vendetta
Vendetta: the true story of the largest lynching in U.S. history
2000, Guernica
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: Vendetta
Vendetta: the true story of the largest lynching in U.S. history
1998, Guernica
in English
Cover of: Vendetta
Vendetta: a true story of the worst lynching in America, the mass murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, the vicious motivations behind it, and the tragic repercussions that linger to this day
1977, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Vendetta
Vendetta: A true story of the worst lynching in America, the mass murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, the vicious motivations behind it, ... tragic repercussions that linger to this day
1977, DoubleDay
in English

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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 194-198.

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Garden City, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/34
Library of Congress
HV6534.N45 G35

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 198 p., [12] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
198

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OL4887605M
Internet Archive
vendettatruestor00gamb
ISBN 10
038512273X
LCCN
76018345
OCLC/WorldCat
2524357
Library Thing
2588928
Goodreads
1457965

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