Talk:Black Hand (Chicago)

Entire article needs to be incorporated into "Black Hand (extortion)"

Quote from that article:

The roots of the Black Hand can be traced to the Kingdom of Naples as early as the 1750s. However, the term as normally used in English specifically refers to the organization established by Italian immigrants in the United States during the 1880s who, though fluent in their Southern Italian regional languages, had no access to Standard Italian or even a grammar school education. A minority of the immigrants formed criminal syndicates, living alongside each other. By 1900, Black Hand operations were firmly established in the Italian-American communities of major cities including New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Scranton, San Francisco, and Detroit. Although more successful immigrants were usually targeted, possibly as many as 90% of Italian immigrants in New York were threatened.

Milkunderwood (talk) 00:14, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, I've proposed a merge. This article has failed to develop into anything useful in the past two years, and is largely a re-summary of Black Hand in general, a few short bios (Torrio has some gBook hits, Catalano no) and some anecdotes of individual crimes. It should be merged to form a Chicago section of the overall Black Hand article. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:22, 12 July 2012 (UTC)