What the records say
- When
- 14 Mar 1891
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 11
- Coordinates
- 29.96° N, 90.07° W
- Description
- murder of eleven Italians imprisoned for their alleged role in the assassination of the local police chief
- Cause
- anti-Catholicism in the United States, Anti-Italianism
1891 New Orleans lynchings
Murder of eleven Italian men by a mob
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. Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up and charged due to their Italian ethnicity.
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- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison, and lynches 11 Italians arrested but found innocent of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “lynchage de onze Italiens à La Nouvelle-Orléans”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page