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Today in WV History
11 Feb

Eight members of the Black Hand were arrested in Harrison County

The Black Hand was the name and symbol of an underworld society of Italian immigrants that, during the first decades of the 20th century, sought to extort money from other Italian immigrants. Thriving in Sicily in the late 19th century, the Black ...

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