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Federal Hill Riots and The Frank P. Ventrone Block

By Taylor M. Polites
The Federal Hill Riots of 1914, often called the “Macaroni Riots,” epitomize the struggle of immigrant communities in Rhode Island. As World War I was breaking out, food prices spiked. Laborers gathered on street corners to listen to “agitators”…
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This work is licensed by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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