"Legend of the Lynched Greek" by Steve Frangos, article published in The National Herald, March 4-10, 2023.   ----- Hellenic Genealogy Geek would like to thank The National Herald for giving us permission, many years ago, to reprint articles that would be of interest to our genealogy community. ----- As best I can remember, the first time, I heard ‘the legend of the lynched Greek’ I was a teenager. Since, that time the tale of this youth has been told to me many times. As this legend goes, the so-called lynched Greek was an immigrant from the 1880 to 1920 waves who was hung by the Ku Klux Klan. The way the story always unfolded was the Greek-American speaker had himself/herself been told a Greek youth had somehow offended or challenged the Ku Klux Klan and so had been hung. But the teller of this tale never really knew much more. I was always reassured that I could and should learn more about this fallen and forgotten hero. And I tried. But it was a huge circle. First e...

  The book “A History of the Greeks in the Americas 1453-1938” – a narrative history written by Paul Koken, Theodore N. Constant and Seraphim G. Canoutas between 1935-1938, published in 1995 by Proctor Publications, LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.  Below you will find the Table of Contents along with a list of the 288 Greeks mentioned in the book . Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE:  DURING THE PERIOD OF DISCOVERY 1.        Greek Sailors in Columbus’ Time 2.        Greeks in the Exploration of Peru and Chili 3.        Other Greek Mainers in the Cost of Peru and Chili CHAPTER TWO:  JUAN DE FUCA 1.        Lok’s Original Note 2.        Hubert Howe Bancroft’s Version of Lok’s Story 3.        Bancroft’s Interpretation 4.        Bancroft’s Erroneous ...