Author: Elias Wesley SandelPublisher: Tabor Lucas Publications
ISBN: 9780963642509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Italian Immigrants in the 1910 U.S. Census of Tangipahoa Parish, La
Author: Elias Wesley SandelPublisher: Tabor Lucas Publications
ISBN: 9780963642509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The American Census Handbook
Author: Thomas Jay KempPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
Author: Bread and Respect
Author: Margavio, A. V.Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455601509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Approximately 70,000 Italian immigrants arrived in the Port of New Orleans between 1898 and 1929. They brought with them a yearning, a hunger for the things they valued: bread, respect, fortune, security, beauty, justice, and drama. Impoverished conditions in Sicily lead its people to respond to Louisiana plantersï¿1/2 pleas for workers, and the transported Sicilians were then able start new lives, rising quickly to become leaders in their communities. This is bread. There were few opportunities for land ownership in Sicily and overcrowding in the urban slums into which immigrants in other parts of the country came. In Louisiana, these immigrants largely settled in rural areas, and before long, Italian Americans became the "food kingpins" of the state. This is respect. Together, they form the basis of this history of interwoven influences, clashes between the old world and the new, and that which makes America the great nation it is: the longing of its citizens to be independent. Using vignettes, family histories, and census as well as other historical records, A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone examine how Italian culture shaped the lives of the immigrants to Louisiana and, in turn, how experiences in Louisiana modified the Old World values and culture the Italians brought with them. There are hundreds of thousands of Italian Americans living in Louisiana today. A. V. Margavio is a professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. Jerome J. Salomone is a professor of sociology and scholar in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.
The Axeman of New Orleans
Author: Miriam C. DavisPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161374871X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story.
A Refuge for All Ages
Author: Carl A. BrasseauxPublisher: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Does not include immigration records (persons arriving in Louisiana).
Louisiana History
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
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