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In 1906, “members of every Italian society in the city” contributed to the purchase and dedication of a statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the revolutionary hero of Italian unification who had famously invaded and conquered Sicily in 1860.101 Significant not only because Sicilians and other Italians acted in tandem, but because Garibaldi remains the iconic figure of the Italian Risorgimento and a key symbol in the process of nationalizing the peninsula and conquering the South.
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Jessica Barbata Jackson (Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South)