Italian 42B: Historical People

• -Italian anarchist and labor activist who orchestrated acts of terrorism via his Gallianisti
•  -believed in the use of violence to eliminate capitalist tyrants

• -photojournalist that shoots immigrant tenements (captures the destitution, misery)
• -creates air of sentimentality, pity about the immigrant condition

-suspected anarchists convicted and executed wrongly for murdering 2 men in an armed robbery (S. Braintree Massachusetts)

• -mayor of NY in 1930s who worked to further immigrants' rights
• -revitalized NYC's infrastructure, employment system

• -Fascist dictator of Italy (20s-40s)
• -destroyed political opposition thru secret police, outlawed labor strikes

• -succeeded LaGuardia, democratic socialist
• -kind, inspirational orator, helped pass civil rights legislation in congress, brought together racial minorities

Italian-American author of the Godfather

• -Director of the Godfather movies
• -revolutionized film making in gangster

-Italian-American who aided American forces during Revolutionary War

• -Italian author/explorer
• -best known for discovering the headwaters of the Mississippi River

-Spanish monarch who ruled over Southern Italy/Sicily against whom the risorgimento forces rebelled

• -hero of Risorgimento participates in unsuccessful rebellions in 1820 & 1848, travels to south america (heads rebel navy there)
• -leads exiled Italians to plan next revolution, leads troops into Naples and defeats Bourbons

-Italian writer, political theorist that came up with the theory of hegemony

• -Galleanisti attempt to assassinate him
• -campaigned against radicalism

• -most important Italian radical in US,
• -owned 3 italian language newspapers
• -major strike leader and labor activist organizer

-left wing labor lawyer initially defending Sacco & Vanzetti (knows they won't get a fair trial)

• -completely partial anglo-saxon judge presiding over the Sacco & Vanzetti case
• -anti-anarchy
• -unfairly convicted them, overturned all appeals, sentenced them to death

• -judge in Palermo, spent most of his life trying to understand and overthrow the Mafia in Sicily
• -killed eventually by the Mafia, who bombed his car