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Italian Lynching

This photograph shows a crowd outside the New Orleans parish prison, during or after the March 14, 1891 lynching and shooting of eleven Sicilian men in supposed retaliation for the assassination of police chief David Hennessey.

Italian Lynching

Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

Italian Lynching. Unidentified

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Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection
Date 1891
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