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Rhetoric Becomes Gruesome Reality on a Sunny Saturday Morning in 19th-Century New Orleans

5/9/2017

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In 1891, a mob of close to 20,000 gathered at the Henry Clay statue in downtown New Orleans to take the law into their own hands. One of the largest in history and led by a row of 100 men with shotguns, it marched to the Parish Prison to deliver its own brand of justice to 19 terrified Italians imprisoned there.  

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