Between 1850 and 1870, New Orleans boasted the largest Italian-born population of any city in the United States. Its early Italian immigrants included musicians, business leaders, and diplomats. Sadly, in 1891, 11 members of the large Sicilian settlement in New Orleans were victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. However, by 1910, the city's French Quarter was a "Little Palermo" with Italian entrepreneur, laborers, and restauranteurs dominating the scene.
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In this volume Joseph Maselli, the editor of the Italian American Digest, and Dominic Candeloro, executive director of the American Italian Historical Association, have partnered to use the rich holdings of the American Italian Renaissance Foundation Museum of New Orleans (which Maselli founded) to create a lively photographic history of Italians in New Orleans. With the assistance of Bette W. Cadwell and Karen Quaglino Daray of the museum staff, Maselli and Candeloro explore the social, family, political, and religious history of one of New Orleans's most remarkable ethnic groups.
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A Wonderful Book With One Amazing Omission,
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This review is from: Italians in New Orleans (LA) (Images of America) (Paperback)
New Orleans, and particularly the Vieux Carre (French Quarter) cannot be understood without appreciating the Italian, and especially Sicilian history of the city. This wide-ranging collection of pictures and captions, with short introductions, is the most comprehensive look at New Orleans Italians yet published.But there's one amazing omission in its display of famous New Orleans Italian-Americans in the arts: Cosimo Matassa. Born of Sicilian parents in New Orleans in 1926, Matassa mid-wifed the cross-pollination from black R&B to white rock & roll in the 1940s and 50s. He was the first to record Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Little Richard, and many other black artists at a time when the color line extended to recording studios. I don't know how the authors could have overlooked Matassa; he is very much alive and still has his office in his parent's former home on Dauphine street, above the grocery started by his parents and now run by his sons. Aside from this glaring oversight, this book is highly recommended.
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New Orleans, Italian Americans, French Quarter, American Italian Renaissance Foundation, Contessa Entellina, Joseph Maselli, Louis Prima, New York, World War, United States, Frank Maselli, Joe Maselli, Louisiana Supreme Court, Santa Rosalia, Chartres Street, Crescent City, Decatur Street, Italian Hall, Louis Cathedral, Marguerite Piazza, Mary's Church, Mississippi River, Mutua Beneficenza Cefalutana, Royal Street, Tony Almerico New!
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