The federal government compensated Italy for lynchings of its citizens on three separate occasions

Evidence

Diplomatic relations remained strained for several weeks until President Benjamin Harrison ordered the secretary of state to withdraw almost 25,000 (2,211.90 per family) from State Department funds (nearly $864,000 today) to compensate Italy and the families of the eleven men. The payment marked the first of three times the federal government would compensate Italy for lynchings of its citizens in the South. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 127

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reparations argument by establishing federal precedent for compensating victims of racialized violence; relevant to remediation design.
• XREF: connects to: The US pledged indemnity to Italy for the lynching of Italians. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 717; The US government paid indemnities to Italy for lynched Italian citizens. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 717; International diplomatic leverage forced federal reparations for lynched Italians — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 126 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The US pledged indemnity to Italy for the lynching of Italians. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 717; The US government paid indemnities to Italy for lynched Italian citizens. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 717; International diplomatic leverage forced federal reparations for lynched Italians — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 126 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The US government paid indemnities to Italy for lynched Italian citizens. #expands (0.97) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 717
• The United States once paid reparations for lynched Italian Americans #corroborates (0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 24
• The federal government compensated foreign lynching victims but not Black ones #complicates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 122