What Ms. Strelke shared with Mr. DiDonna


An Italian immigrant family on a ferry from the docks to Ellis Island, New York.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/how-an-1891-mass-lynching-tried-to-make-america-great-again?utm_term=.inpaaLN0vB#.pmWqq7ReVm


In the hysteria following the murder of a New Orleans police chief, 11 Italian-Americans were lynched by a vigilante mob angry about the city's influx of immigrants. Here's how the past and future of American nativism may not be that different.

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