Black Hand or The Black Hand may refer to:
Extortionists and underground groups
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Black Hand (anarchism) (''La Mano Negra''), a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain during the early 1880s
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Black Hand (extortion), an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States
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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
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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
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Black Hand (Serbia) (''Црна Рука''), a secret society devoted to Serbian unification in the 1910s
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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
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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
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Black Hand (graffiti artist), Iranian street artist
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José Manuel Martínez (born 1962), known as "El Mano Negra", former Mexican drug cartel hitman
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Mano Negra (wrestler) (born 1951), Mexican luchador (professional wrestler)
Art, entertainment, and media
* ''Black Hand Gang'', a children's comics series by
Hans Jürgen Press
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''The Black Hand'' (book), a non-fiction book by Stephan Talty
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Mano Negra (band), a French alternative, ska punk band
Characters
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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
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Black Hand (''World of Darkness''), fictional sect of vampires
* Black Hand, a mercenary faction in ''
Just Cause''
Film
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''The Black Hand'' (1906 film), an American silent gangster film, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
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''The Black Hand'' (1917 film), a 1917 Austrian silent crime
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''Black Hand'' (1950 film), an American film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket
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''The Black Hand'' (1968 film), a French-Italian crime thriller film
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''The Black Hand'' (1973 film), an Italian crime film starring Lionel Stander as a cop who infiltrates the Mafia
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