Unification or Death (Serbian: Уједињење или смрт / Ujedinjenje ili smrt), popularly known as the Black Hand (Serbian: Црна рука / Crna ruka), was a secret military society formed in May 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia.

Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of extortion racket, active in the United States from the early 20th century to the 1920s in Italian-American ghettos or neighborhoods, and committed mainly by criminal immigrants from southern Italy.

Black Hand, secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914), precipitating the outbreak of World War I.

Apr 23, 2017 · Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow Italians, mainly, among...

Apr 5, 2025 · Black Hand, any of several extortion rackets run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters in the Italian communities of New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, and other U.S. cities from about 1890 to 1920.

Jan 27, 2023 · On May 9, 1911, 10 Narodna Odbrana formed the Black Hand — sometimes called “Unification or Death” (or Ujedinjenje ili Smrt in Serbian). The Black Hand was a secret Serbian nationalist group mostly comprised of the Serbian military.

The Black Hand movement was dedicated to freeing Bosnia from Austrian occupation and incorporating it into Greater Serbia. The movement is significant for its connection with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

The Black Hand is most famous for its role in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, which sparked a series of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Black Hand, an American film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket; The Black Hand, a French-Italian crime thriller film; The Black Hand, an Italian crime film starring Lionel Stander as a cop who infiltrates the Mafia

In the shadow of that identity, the Black Hand were a secret Serbian Nationalist military group. For years, the secret society wielded an impressive amount of unofficial influence. They were well networked throughout the Balkans; dangerous, organized and…