"[Italians are] "just a little worse than the Negro, being if anything filthier in [their] habits, lawless, and treacherous.""
— Anti-Italianism

January 1, 1970

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John Parker (governor of Louisiana) quoted in : On Persecution, Identity, and Activism by Cristogianni Borsella. And in: Falco, Ed (2012). "When Italian immigrants were 'the other'". CNN.com.