The mayor of New Orleans plans an apology to Italian Americans for what's considered the nation's largest lynching – violence in which 11 Italian immigrants were killed after acquittals in a police chief's murder in 1891.
This photograph, taken Jan. 30, 2016 and provided by AWE News, shows a copy of a March 14, 1891, newspaper advertisement as shown in the Musee Conti Wax Museum exhibit about the lynching of 11 Italian immigrants, three of whom had been acquitted a day earlier in the murder of the city's police chief.
"Our office has worked with the Italian-American community on this issue and will be releasing a proclamation" April 12, said a statement emailed by mayoral spokesman Joseph Caruso.Correspondence among Italian, U.S., and state officials shows that the lynching "occurred with the connivance of the New Orleans local authorities," Patricia Fama Stahle wrote in aThe police chief in question, Commissioner David Hennessy, was ambushed late Oct. 15, 1890, by four men near his home.
At least three of those tried in New Orleans had been in trouble with the law in Italy and another was a known Mafioso, according to Stahle, but at least five had clean records. Eight of those killed were U.S. citizens, three were Italian citizens.
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