Although the United States grouped #Sicilians under the category of "#Italians," #Sicilians were reluctant to do so. The unification with Italy and Sicily was less than 100 years old, and the bitterness it had wrought ran deep among #Sicilians.

After World War II, the children and grandchildren of these immigrants were largely cognizant of the need for education. By this time, #Sicilians were acclimated to the extent that they no longer felt threatened or intimidated by American schools

Numerous innocent #Sicilians were charged and convicted of heinous crimes, usually with flimsy circumstantial evidence to support their cases. When the jury system failed to convict, citizens took matters into their own hands