All posts tagged "Italian immigrants"

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  George Scigliano, Lost Leader of Boston’s North End

  George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...

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  Massachusetts

  Henning Jacobson Loses His Fight with the Board of Public Health Over Vaccination

  Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...