1891 New Orleans lynchings
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1891-new-orleans-lynchings-187-18756557
title:
1891 New Orleans lynchings
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, 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. Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up and charged due to their Italian ethnicity. The lynching took place on March 14, the day after the trial of nine of the nineteen men indicted i
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Murder of eleven Italian men by a mob
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings
date created:
2014-08-28T06:56:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T16:10:46Z
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