New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell will offer an "Official Proclamation of Apology" for the 1891 lynching of eleven Italian-American men, according to published reports. The apology is scheduled to be presented at an 11 a.m. ceremony Friday, April 12, 2019, at the city's American Italian Cultural Center.
For more on the proclamation and the lynchings, see this Writers of Wrongs post:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/04 ... -1891.html
1891 Lynchings in New Orleans
1891 Lynchings in New Orleans
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