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Black Hand ( Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants . Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia ...
extortion. Black Hand, any of several extortion rackets run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters in the Italian communities of New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, and other U.S. cities from about 1890 to 1920. It consisted of sending threatening notes to local merchants and other well-to-do persons—notes printed with ...
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Apr 23, 2017 · A few were also on the lam. Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow ...
Apr 29, 2017 · Stephan Talty's The Black Hand tells the story of the Black Hand crime wave that gripped New York City in the early 1900s and the one policeman who took it on. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon.
Mar 17, 2003 · From 1903 till about 1920, murders accredited to the “Black Hand Society” dominated the newspapers and spread fear throughout Chicago, especially in the Italian settlements. The article below is a sample of the newspaper coverage as a result of these crimes. There were numerous theories on how this network operated, as well as those on how ...
Black Hand (Chicago) Black Hand extortion was a criminal tactic used by gangsters based in major cities in the United States. In Chicago, Black Hand extortion began around 1900 and had all but faded away by 1970, replaced by the Mafia. The Mafia was initially organized by Johnny Torrio and further organized by Al Capone into the extant Chicago ...
Aug 19, 2018 · NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with William Oldfield. His book, Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society, is about his great-grandfather's work helping take down an infamous extortion ring.
