New Orleans remembers mass lynching of Italians 134 years later

• Read the Italian consul's statement at the time.
• The next year, President Benjamin Harrison, hoping to repair things, created Columbus Day to honor the Italian-born explorer.
• The U.S. also paid Italy about $760,000 in today's currency to make amends, the paper wrote.

The bottom line: New Orleans officials formally apologized in 2019 for the lynchings.

• No one was charged in the deaths. No one was convicted in the police chief's death either.

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