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March 14, 1891 lynchings

1891 CE · United States, North America · Politics

March 14, 1891 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.

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