Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The White Hand Gang was a collection of various Irish American gangs on the New York, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from the early 1900s to 1925 who organized against the growing influence of Italian gangsters. Their name was chosen in response to the Sicilian Black Hand gangs and carried the implication that the Irish gang was the \"white\" counter to the growing presence of what they considered \"non-white\" Italian gangsters and Italian immigrants."@en }
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- White_Hand_Gang comment "The White Hand Gang was a collection of various Irish American gangs on the New York, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from the early 1900s to 1925 who organized against the growing influence of Italian gangsters. Their name was chosen in response to the Sicilian Black Hand gangs and carried the implication that the Irish gang was the \"white\" counter to the growing presence of what they considered \"non-white\" Italian gangsters and Italian immigrants.".