Italians emigrated to America for work, some leaving their families behind awaiting their safe return. With an estimation of about four million Italians it has been the biggest immigration that America has had. Sadly forcing many Italian men out of Italy, with their wives at home called white widows, into ships arriving in the Mississippi where most of the men went to work in cane fields in Louisiana. With the Italians taking over what is known as the French Quarters in Louisiana there were bound to be some racism. In 1890 one of Louisiana’s Superintendent of Police Mr. David C. Hennessy was murdered while walking home one night. Subsequently the blame was placed on the Italians, and lead to the arrests of roughly two hundred Italian men. Thus
