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 take credit for it, but no one was charged or punished for this injustice.
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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 take credit for it, but no one was charged or punished for this injustice.
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