Black Hand (Serbia) - Wikipedia
WEBUnification or Death (Serbian: Ujedinjenje ili smrt, Serbian Cyrillic: Уједињење или смрт), popularly known as the Black Hand (Serbian: Crna ruka, Serbian Cyrillic: Црна рука), was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Black Hand | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEBBlack Hand, secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914), precipitating the outbreak of World War I.
Black Hand (extortion) - Wikipedia
WEBBlack Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants. Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia ...
Black Hand | Italian Mafia, Sicilian Immigrants & Crime Syndicate
WEBMar 22, 2024 · Black Hand, any of several extortion rackets run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters in the Italian communities of New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, and other U.S. cities from about 1890 to 1920. It consisted of sending threatening notes to local merchants and other.
Before the Mafia, there was the terrifying 'Black Hand' - USA TODAY
WEBApr 23, 2017 · Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow Italians, mainly, among...
The Black Hand: Serbian Terrorists Spark WWI - ThoughtCo
WEBMay 28, 2019 · By. Robert Wilde. Updated on May 28, 2019. The Black Hand was the name of a Serbian terrorist group with nationalist aims, who sponsored the attack on Austrian Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that both killed him and provided the spark for …
Black Hand | Encyclopedia.com
WEBThe Black Hand is most famous for its role in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, which sparked a series of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War.
Inside 'The Black Hand' Crime Wave A Century Ago : NPR
WEBApr 29, 2017 · Stephan Talty's The Black Hand tells the story of the Black Hand crime wave that gripped New York City in the early 1900s and the one policeman who took it on. He talks with NPR's Scott...
Shadow over Serbia: The Black Hand | History Today
WEBShadow over Serbia: The Black Hand. A.W. Palmer describes how the troubled politics of Serbia played a large part in precipitating the first World War. By a policy of violence and assassination, a group of army conspirators, known as the “Black Hand,” laid a fuse to the Balkan powder-keg.
Gavrilo Princip | Shooting Franz Ferdinand, Black Hand,
WEBApr 3, 2024 · Born into a Bosnian Serb peasant family, Princip was trained in terrorism by the Serbian secret society known as the Black Hand (true name Ujedinjenje ili Smrt, “Union or Death”).
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