Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of eleven Sicilians in New Orleans
14 March 1891Orleans Parish Prison, Treme, New Orleans, LA
After a jury acquitted them, a mob of thousands stormed the Orleans Parish Prison and killed eleven Italian immigrants - one of the largest mass lynchings in American history.
- People killed
- 11
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