Sicilian Immigration to Louisiana. From the 1870s till 1920, approximately 3,000 Sicilians per year immigrated to America via New Orleans. They worked on plantations, railroads, and docks; soon becoming entrepreneurs in importing. shipping. farming, and retail. A New Orleanian of Sicilian descent, Joseph P. Macheca, ran a shipping company and…
Mobs of white people brutally lynched two Black men, Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, within an 11-year period in Carencro, Louisiana. On March 24, 1896, 500 white men abducted Mr. Senegal, who was also referred to as Louis Sinclair, from the Carencro jail and hanged him to death. Police left…
July 24 to 27, 1900, White mobs unleashed a campaign of racial terror throughout the city of New Orleans that resulted in the lynching of at least seven Black people. Violence began after police tried to arrest Robert Charles, a 35-year old Black man. During this era, Black people carried…