Apr 5, 2025 · Black Hand, any of several extortion rackets run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters in the Italian communities of New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, …

Initially an anti-monarchist network, it absorbs powerful brigand bands and degenerates into a criminal association. It spreads with Sicilian immigration to the New World. The American …

On October 15, 1890, New Orleans Police Superintendent David Hennessy was murdered execution-style. It is still unclear whether Italian immigrants actually killed him, or whether it …

Oct 22, 2009 · In New York City alone, the number of Italians soared from 20,000 to 250,000 between 1880 and 1890, and by 1910, that number had jumped to 500,000 immigrants and …

Apr 1, 2017 · Born Palermo, Sicily, c.1829. Killed New Orleans, LA, April 1, 1869. Raffaele Agnello was a Palermo, Sicily, Mafioso who set up a Mafia organization in New Orleans just …

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Haifa, Israel. 1100 or 1101 – a Crusader fleet and land army conquer Haifa. The Crusaders rename it Caiphas. [4][5] 1187 – Saladin …

Mafiosi introduce known members to each other as belonging to cosa nostra ("our thing") or la stessa cosa ("the same thing"), meaning "he is the same thing as you – a mafioso." The …

Feb 4, 2020 · MORE: In 1890, A New Orleans Police Chief Was Gunned Down By The Mafia. A few years later, as Attorney General in his brother’s Administration, Bobby had Marcello …

San Francisco’s Italian Americans for the period ranging from 1890 to 1940, while higher than that of non–Italian American “whites,” was far below the average of their co-nationals residing in …

Dec 5, 2014 · The Mafia in America became a concern that paralleled the immigration wave from Italy during the late 1800s. It was closely associated with victimization within Italian …