In 1899, in Tallulah, Louisiana, three Italian-American shopkeepers were lynched because they had given equal status in their shops to blacks.
Anti-Italianism was part of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic ideology of the revived Ku Klux Klan (KKK) after 1915; the white supremacist and nativist group targeted Italians and other foreign Roman Catholics, seeking to preserve the supposed dominance of Anglo-Saxon Protestants.