Vendetta
the true story of the largest lynching in U.S. history
by Richard Gambino
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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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History, Italian Americans, Lynching, Mass murder, Southern states, history, MurderPlaces
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Vendetta: the true story of the largest lynching in U.S. history
2000, Guernica
in English
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Vendetta: the true story of the largest lynching in U.S. history
1998, Guernica
in English
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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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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.
038512273X 9780385122733
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-198).
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971.
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