by moneyman » Thu Feb 02, 2017 7:10 am
just started reading it, here are some parts I have found interesting.. I realize most of this info has probably been posted before.. I'll post more interesting stuff later if appropriate
From 1880 to 1900, 959,000 Italians entered the U.S., and the following two decades
saw a further 3,200,000 Italians make the journey. This massive wave of migration to
the U.S. stopped with World War I and the introduction of immigration restriction in the
1920s and, particularly, the Immigration Act of 1924, after which the annual visa quota for
Italians was reduced to 4000. While initially the source locations were found in Northern
Italy, over time Sicily and the South provided a larger proportion of new arrivals, due
to labor unrest, population excess and, most of all, agricultural crises and commodity
price shocks.
The majority of these immigrants were agricultural workers, with low levels of literacy.
In 1901, about 80 percent of the Sicilian population was illiterate
Anthony Accardo, Chicago's boss-of-bosses for almost a half-
century (who has a record in the FBN data), was born in Chicago to Sicilian immigrants.
Both settled in the U.S. in 1905. When Anthony was 14 his parents led paperwork with
the authorities claiming that he was two years older than he actually was so that he could
leave school and go to work, a common practice
Criminal careers started quite early { FBN records show that in fifty percent of cases the very first recorded arrest
occurred before the age of 20.
The advantage of the 1940 Census is that it allows for a search by first and last
names as well as basic demographic characteristics and it was the rst U.S. Census to
ask questions at the individual level about highest grade of schooling attained, wage
income, whether any non-labor income was earned in the previous year and migration in
the past ve years and it also provides information on the house value or rent paid for each household.
Of our 414 mobsters only in 5 instances did mobsters with different sur-
names share the same Census page with other mobsters: Joseph Filardo and Joseph
Cusamano, Carlo Gambino and Gaetano Russo, Joseph Stracci and John Linardi, Agatino
Garu and Salvatore Maimone, Vincent Teriaca and Nicholas Bonina. In other words,
only 10 out of 414 known mobsters lived close enough to end up on the same Census page.
just started reading it, here are some parts I have found interesting.. I realize most of this info has probably been posted before.. I'll post more interesting stuff later if appropriate
From 1880 to 1900, 959,000 Italians entered the U.S., and the following two decades
saw a further 3,200,000 Italians make the journey. This massive wave of migration to
the U.S. stopped with World War I and the introduction of immigration restriction in the
1920s and, particularly, the Immigration Act of 1924, after which the annual visa quota for
Italians was reduced to 4000. While initially the source locations were found in Northern
Italy, over time Sicily and the South provided a larger proportion of new arrivals, due
to labor unrest, population excess and, most of all, agricultural crises and commodity
price shocks.
The majority of these immigrants were agricultural workers, with low levels of literacy.
In 1901, about 80 percent of the Sicilian population was illiterate
Anthony Accardo, Chicago's boss-of-bosses for almost a half-
century (who has a record in the FBN data), was born in Chicago to Sicilian immigrants.
Both settled in the U.S. in 1905. When Anthony was 14 his parents led paperwork with
the authorities claiming that he was two years older than he actually was so that he could
leave school and go to work, a common practice
Criminal careers started quite early { FBN records show that in fifty percent of cases the very first recorded arrest
occurred before the age of 20.
The advantage of the 1940 Census is that it allows for a search by first and last
names as well as basic demographic characteristics and it was the rst U.S. Census to
ask questions at the individual level about highest grade of schooling attained, wage
income, whether any non-labor income was earned in the previous year and migration in
the past ve years and it also provides information on the house value or rent paid for each household.
Of our 414 mobsters only in 5 instances did mobsters with different sur-
names share the same Census page with other mobsters: Joseph Filardo and Joseph
Cusamano, Carlo Gambino and Gaetano Russo, Joseph Stracci and John Linardi, Agatino
Garu and Salvatore Maimone, Vincent Teriaca and Nicholas Bonina. In other words,
only 10 out of 414 known mobsters lived close enough to end up on the same Census page.