CC205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elmer Lincoln Irey, Abner Zwillman, Albert Anastasia
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They didn"t embrace the name: italian dominated gangs arose primarily out of socioeconomic conditions in america and often worked in partnership with mobsters from other backgrounds. Video on early italian oc shown in class, new orleans was the first time that the term mafia was used by the police. The mafia lands in new orleans: prior to the civil war, several thousand italians lived in new orleans. By 1890, estimates of italian population ran as high as 25,000 or 10% of population. The first was little palmero (palermo is the capital of sicily: a war erupted between two rival mafia families. David hennessey supported one faction, not a good guy. Corrupt cop, his death led to lynching of. He was subsequently murdered: after hennessey"s murder, a grand jury was convened and announced that a secret organization known as the mafia had been established , nineteen men were indicted for the murder, whilst nine were tried.
