1891 New Orleans 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
Rioters breaking into parish prison, as illustrated in History of the United States (1912, Scribner)
Artist's conception of Hennessy's murder. "Scene of the Assassination", The Mascot, New Orleans, 1890.
William S. Parkerson inciting the mob. Harper's Weekly, March 28, 1891.
Rioters outside Parish Prison
Joseph A. Shakspeare
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Joseph Ansoetegui Shakspeare was an American politician in Louisiana; he served as the elected mayor of New Orleans from 1880 to 1882 and from 1888 to 1892. He previously was elected for one term in t
