The Crescent City Lynchings

The Crescent City Lynchings by Tom Smith


Authors
Tom Smith
ISBN
9781592289011
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
344
Dimensions
161 x 234 x 31mm

The Murder Of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans "Mafia" Trials, And The Parish Prison Mob.

In 1890, a group of Italian immigrants and Italian Americans were accused of gunning down New Orleans police chief David Hennessy, who had come between two rival waterfront gangs. Nineteen men were indicted; nine stood trial. After six of the nine accused were acquitted and the remaining three awarded mistrials, a vigilante mob of 8,000 people fought their way into the Parish Prison and killed eleven of the defendants. The incident drew anti- American ire from across the world, and even brought the U.S. to the brink of war with Italy until formal reparations were made. Tom Smith presents an in-depth and nuanced account of the episode that was the greatest mass lynching in our nation's history, and which popularized the term Mafia in the American lexicon.
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