The Black Hand
Subtitle: terror by letter in Chicago
By: Robert M. Lombardo.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780252034886; 9780252076756
Subjects: Black Hand (United States) -- History; Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Extortion -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Italians in Chicago; title: The White Hand Society; title: The Black Hand Squad; title: The Prohibition years; title: The causes of Black Hand extortion; title: The social construction of deviance; title: Conclusion.