Black Hand or The Black Hand may refer to:

Extortionists and underground groups

Black Hand (anarchism) The Black Hand ( es, La Mano Negra) was a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain and best known as the perpetrators of murders, arson, and crop fires in the early 1880s. The events associated with the B ...

(''La Mano Negra''), a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain during the early 1880s *

Black Hand (extortion) Black Hand ( it, Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion came to the United States in the later nineteenth century with immigrants. Black Hand was a method of ext ...

, an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States **

Black Hand (Chicago) Black Hand extortion was a criminal tactic used by gangsters based in major cities in the United States. In Chicago, Black Hand extortion began around 1900 and had all but faded away by 1970, replaced by the Mafia. The Mafia was initially organi ...

, the extortion as practised in Chicago *

Black Hand (Mandatory Palestine) The Black Hand ( ar, الكف الاسود , translit= ''al-Kaff al-Aswad'') was an anti-Zionist and anti-British Jihadist militant organization in Mandatory Palestine. It was founded in 1930 and led until the death of Syrian-born Sheikh Izz ...

(''al-Kaff al-Aswad''), an Islamist militant group in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s *

Black Hand (Serbia) Unification or Death ( sr, Ujedinjenje ili smrt, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Уједињење или смрт), popularly known as the Black Hand ( sr, Crna ruka, italics=yes, links=no, sr-Cyrl, Црна рука), was a secret military society ...

(''Црна Рука''), a secret society devoted to Serbian unification in the 1910s *

Black Hand (Slovenia) The Black Hand ( Slovene: ''Črna roka'') was a terrorist organization active in the Slovene Lands during World War II. It conducted assassinations of members of the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. The organization ...

(''Črna roka''), an anti-communist organization that carried out assassinations in the Slovene Lands during World War II *

Yiddish Black Hand Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

, a.k.a. Jewish Black Hand Association, a criminal organization that operated on New York's Lower East Side during the early 20th century

People

* Black Hand (graffiti artist), Iranian street artist * José Manuel Martínez (born 1962), known as "El Mano Negra", former Mexican drug cartel hitman *

Mano Negra (wrestler) Jesús Reza Rosales (born January 15, 1951) is a Mexican ''Luchador'', or professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Mano Negra. Mano Negra is Spanish for "The Black Hand" and is taken from the Spanish anarchist organisation ''La Mano N ...

(born 1951), Mexican luchador (professional wrestler)

Art, entertainment, and media

* ''Black Hand Gang'', a children's comics series by

Hans Jürgen Press Hans Jürgen Press (1926 – 2002) was a German illustrator and writer of children's books. Many of his books contain stories and puzzles in which the reader searches the illustrations for clues to the mystery. Biography Press was born in Klein ...

* ''The Black Hand'' (book), a non-fiction book by Stephan Talty *

Mano Negra (band) Mano Negra (complete Spanish name: ''La Mano Negra'', sometimes abbreviated to ''La Mano'' in France) was a French music group active from 1987 to 1994 and fronted by Manu Chao. The group was founded in Paris by Chao, his brother Antoine and the ...

, a French alternative, ska punk band

Characters

Black Hand (comics) Black Hand (William Derek Hand) is a DC Comics supervillain and a recurring foe to Green Lantern. Publication history Black Hand first appeared in ''Green Lantern'' vol. 2 #29 (June 1964) and was created by John Broome and Gil Kane. The characte ...

, a DC Comics supervillain * Black Hand (''World of Darkness''), fictional sect of vampires * Black Hand, a mercenary faction in '' Just Cause''

Film

* ''The Black Hand'' (1906 film), an American silent gangster film, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. * ''The Black Hand'' (1917 film), a 1917 Austrian silent crime * ''Black Hand'' (1950 film), an American film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket * ''The Black Hand'' (1968 film), a French-Italian crime thriller film * ''The Black Hand'' (1973 film), an Italian crime film starring Lionel Stander as a cop who infiltrates the Mafia {{disambiguation