Grand juries refused to indict known lynch mob leaders

Evidence

In the aftermath, Tallulah residents announced that “all others of the [Sicilian] race within the parish lines had three days to leave under penalty of death.” The single remaining Sicilian fled, and Tallulah “emptied their town of Italians.” Even though the members of the lynch mob were well-known and two witnesses, black brothers, provided a list of names to Italian diplomatic investigators, the Madison Parish grand jury concluded that they were unable to identify the perpetrators. Once again, Louisiana courts refused to provide justice for murdered Italians. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 139

Categorization

• XREF: The pattern of courts refusing to punish white mob violence recurs in Brown’s argument about state complicity — relevant to reparations as state remedy.